Paradise Lake (''Lac Paradis'') is an emerald-green lake near

Matagami Matagami (, ) is a small town in Quebec, Canada. It is located north of Amos, on Matagami Lake, at the northern terminus of Route 109 and the start of the James Bay Road (French: ''Route de la Baie James''). It is enclaved within the local mu ...

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. The lake is located on the east side of

Quebec Route 109 Route 109 is a Quebec provincial highway that runs through the western regions of Abitibi-Témiscamingue and Nord-du-Québec. It begins at Route 117 in Rivière-Héva, proceeding north approximately to Amos. From there, the highway extends t ...

as it runs from

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to Matagami, 134 km north of Amos. It is labelled on some maps as "Lac Mandjoci" (the word ''Mandjoci'' means a monster in

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). The unusual green colour of the water is caused by copper ores in suspension, and has led to the lake being described as an "exceptional natural site". The Motel Paradis used to stand between the road and the lake, together with an information panel entitled "What gives the emerald water its colour". By the beginning of 2010 visitors reported the hotel to be abandoned and described it as "creepy". It was destroyed by fire in late October 2010. A

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emergency phone still stands between the road and the lake (June 2013).

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