Pointe-aux-Outardes () is a village municipality in

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, Canada, on the southern point of the Manicouagan Peninsula between the mouths of the Outardes and

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s. The place is named after a piece of land that juts out into the

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and partially encloses the Outardes Bay: ''Pointe aux Outardes''. It literally means "Point of

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s", but ''Outarde'' can also be translated as "

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use the nearby Manicouagan River as a corridor in their annual migration and stopover at the point. The

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called it ''Piletipistu Neshkâu'', meaning "point of the Partridge River". But the term ''Outardes'' was used on Guérard's map of 1631 and on Franquelin's map of 1685 to identify the river that flows past the point into the St. Lawrence. Pointe-aux-Outardes is exceptionally rich in flora and fauna. Among its salt marshes, more than 175 species of birds have been counted.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Pointe-aux-Outardes had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Mother tongue (2021): * English as first language: 0% * French as first language: 99.3% * English and French as first language: 0% * Other as first language: 0.4%

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* * {{authority control Incorporated places in Côte-Nord Villages in Quebec Canada geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia