The Pashashibou River (french: Rivière Pashashibou) is a river in the
Côte-Nord
Côte-Nord (, ; ; land area ) is the second-largest administrative region by land area in Quebec, Canada, after Nord-du-Québec. It covers much of the northern shore of the Saint Lawrence River estuary and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence past Tadous ...
region of Quebec, Canada. It flows into the
Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
Location
The Pashashibou River rises in Lake Costebelle and flows south for to Pashashibou Bay on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
The river is scarcely navigable in a canoe for the first from its mouth, and then becomes no more than a stream.
Its mouth is about west of
Natashquan.
The mouth of the Pashashibou River is in the municipality of
Aguanish in the Minganie Regional County Municipality.
The shoreline extending to both sides of the river mouth is protected by the Pashashibou Bay Waterfowl Concentration Area (Aire de concentration d'oiseaux aquatiques de la Baie Pashashibou), an
IUCN Management Category
IUCN protected area categories, or IUCN protected area management categories, are categories used to classify protected areas in a system developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The enlisting of such areas is par ...
IV region designated in 2005 and managed by the Ministry of Forests, Wildlife and Parks.
Name
The
Innu
The Innu / Ilnu ("man", "person") or Innut / Innuat / Ilnuatsh ("people"), formerly called Montagnais from the French colonial period ( French for "mountain people", English pronunciation: ), are the Indigenous inhabitants of territory in the ...
of
Natashquan call the river ''Pihu Hipu'', which means "river with a lynx".
Jacques Cartier
Jacques Cartier ( , also , , ; br, Jakez Karter; 31 December 14911 September 1557) was a French-Breton maritime explorer for France. Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of th ...
named the bay Havre sainct Nicollas in 1535.
The present name is derived from the
Innu language
Innu-aimun or Montagnais is an Algonquian language spoken by over 10,000 Innu in Labrador and Quebec in Eastern Canada. It is a member of the Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi dialect continuum and is spoken in various dialects depending on the commu ...
term ''pishi-shebau''.
This can be interpreted as meaning "sharp rock" or "dry river".
Description
The ''Dictionnaire des rivières et lacs de la province de Québec'' (1914) says,
Basin
Part of the river basin is in the unorganized territory of
Lac-Jérôme and part in the municipality of Aguanish.
The river basin covers .
It lies between the basins of the
Little Watshishou River
The Little Watshishou River (french: Petite rivière Watshishou) is a salmon river in the east of the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada.
Location
The Little Watshishou River originates in Lake Gallienne, and flows southwest to enter the Gulf of ...
to the west and the
Nabisipi River
The Nabisipi River (french: Rivière Nabisipi) is a salmon river in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. It flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence
Location
The Nabisipi River rises in Lake Saumur.
It flows for to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence we ...
to the east.
A map of the
ecological regions of Quebec shows the river basin in sub-regions 6j-T and 6m-T of the east spruce/moss subdomain.
Notes
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Rivers of Côte-Nord