The Otter River (french: Rivière à la Loutre) is a tributary of the

Northwest Branch Saint John River The Northwest Branch Saint John River (French: ''Décharge du Lac Frontière'') is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed June 22, 2011 river primarily in Aroostook County, Mai ...

, flowing in

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(

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) and in

Maine Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and north ...

(

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). This river crosses the following administrative territories: *

Les Etchemins Regional County Municipality Les Etchemins is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of eastern Quebec, Canada. It is named for the Etchemin River which finds its source in the region, as well as Etchemin Lake. Lac-Etchemin is the seat of the RC ...

in the administrative region of

Chaudière-Appalaches Chaudière-Appalaches () is an administrative region in Quebec, Canada. It comprises most of what is historically known as the "Beauce" (french: La Beauce; compare with the electoral district of Beauce). It is named for the Chaudière River and ...

, in South of

, in

, crossing through the municipalities of

Saint-Fabien-de-Panet, Quebec Saint-Fabien-de-Panet is a parish municipality in Quebec. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Fabien-de-Panet had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from i ...

Lac-Frontière, Quebec Lac-Frontière is a municipality in Montmagny Regional County Municipality within the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec. It is located at the border (''frontière'' in French) with the United States. See also * Northwest Branch Saint John R ...

and Saint-Just-de-Bretenières, Quebec; *

Aroostook County Aroostook County ( ; french: Comté d'Aroostook) is a county in the U.S. state of Maine along the Canada–U.S. border. As of the 2020 census, the population was 67,105. Its county seat is Houlton, with offices in Caribou and Fort Kent. Kn ...

(

), in

: Township 11 Range 17 WELS. The "Otter River" mostly flows Southeast into forest areas, in a small valley and crosses the Canada-US border.

Geography

The "Otter Otter" rises between two mountains. This source is located at Northeast from the village of

. The "Otter River" flows over on as is: * to the Southeast, to the road of Rang Saint-Jean-Baptiste; * to the Southwest, collecting the waters of the Lejeune creek (from the Southwest) up to the boundary of the municipality of Lac-Frontiere, Quebec; * to the Southeast in the municipality of Lac-Frontiere, Quebec, up to the Wild creek (from the Southwest); * to the West of the

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* to the South, curving on in Saint-Just-de-Bretenières, Quebec up to the "stream of Lady Proulx" ; * to the East, up to the Canada-US border; * to the Southeast in the

, up to the confluence of the river The "River Otter" pours on the West bank of the

. This confluence is located at: * upstream of the confluence of the

Daaquam River The Daaquam River ( French: ''Rivière Daaquam'') is a river primarily flowing in the administrative region of Chaudière-Appalaches, at South of Quebec in Canada and northern Maine, in United States. The river runs from its source (), south of ...

; * downstream from the mouth of the Frontier Lake (Quebec-Maine). From the confluence of "Otter River", the

flows Southeast up to

Saint John River (Bay of Fundy) The Saint John River (french: Fleuve Saint-Jean; Maliseet-Passamaquoddy: ''Wolastoq'') is a long river that flows from Northern Maine into Canada, and runs south along the western side of New Brunswick, emptying into the Atlantic Ocean in the ...

. It flows to the East and the Northeast, crossing the

, then East and Southeast through the

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. Finally, the current flows on the North bank of the

Bay of Fundy The Bay of Fundy (french: Baie de Fundy) is a bay between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the U.S. state of Maine. It is an arm of the Gulf of Maine. Its extremely high tidal range is the hi ...

which opens to the southwest on the

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Toponymy

The place name "Otter River" was formalized December 5, 1968, at the

Commission de toponymie du Québec The Commission de toponymie du Québec (English: ''Toponymy Commission of Québec'') is the Government of Québec's public body responsible for cataloging, preserving, making official and publicize Québec's place names and their origins according ...

(Quebec Places Names Board).Quebec names Board - Place names Bank - Toponym: "Otter River"
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Geography

Toponymy

References

See also