The Pascagama River is a tributary of
Pascagama Lake
Pascagama Lake is a freshwater body of the eastern part of Senneterre in La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality (RCM), in the administrative region of Abitibi-Témiscamingue, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. This body of water extends ...
. It flows in the Northwest of
Quebec
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, in
Canada
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, in the administrative regions of:
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Mauricie: in the extreme west of the territory of the town of
La Tuque
La Tuque (; ) is a city located in north-central Quebec, Canada, on the Saint-Maurice River, between Trois-Rivières and Chambord. The population was 11,227 at the Canada 2011 Census, most of which live within the urban area. At over 28,000 ...
(canton of Deschamps);
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Abitibi-Témiscamingue: in the easternmost part of
Senneterre
Senneterre is a town in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of northwestern Quebec, Canada. It is in the Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality. The town's territory includes a vast undeveloped area stretching from the Bell River to the Mau ...
, in the
La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality (RCM), where is its mouth. In this region, the course of the river successively crosses the townships of Marceau, Buteux, Lagacé, Coursol and Juneau.
Forestry is the main economic activity of this watershed; recreational tourism activities come second.
The surface of the river is usually frozen from early November to the end of April, however, safe ice circulation is generally from early December to mid-April.
Geography
Toponymy
See also
Notes and references
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Rivers of Mauricie
Rivers of Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Nottaway River drainage basin
La Vallée-de-l’Or
La Tuque, Quebec