Rivière-du-Loup is a

regional county municipality The term regional county municipality or RCM (''french: municipalité régionale de comté, MRC'') is used in Quebec, Canada to refer to one of 87 county-like political entities. In some older English translations they were called county r ...

in the

Bas-Saint-Laurent The Bas-Saint-Laurent (Lower Saint-Lawrence), is an administrative region of Quebec located along the south shore of the lower Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The river widens at this place, later becoming a bay that discharges into the Atlanti ...

region of

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, Canada. Its most important city is

Rivière-du-Loup Rivière-du-Loup (; 2021 population 20,118) is a small city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The city is the seat for the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality and the judicial district of Kamouraska. Its one of ...

, which contains more than half of the population. Major industries include

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and paper, other wood products,

peat Peat (), also known as turf (), is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs. The peatland ecosystem covers and is the most efficien ...

products, mineral products and textiles. The name comes from the French, "River of the Wolf".

Subdivisions

There are 13 subdivisions and one native reserve within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (2) *

* Saint-Antonin ;Municipalities (9) * Cacouna *

L'Isle-Verte L'Isle-Verte () is a small municipality located along the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River, in the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality of the Bas-Saint-Laurent region, Quebec, Canada. The name of the village refers to '' Île Vert ...

* Notre-Dame-du-Portage * Saint-Cyprien *

Saint-Épiphane Saint-Épiphane () is a municipality in Quebec in the administrative region of Bas-Saint-Laurent and the regional county municipality of Rivière-du-Loup Rivière-du-Loup (; 2021 population 20,118) is a small city on the south shore of the ...

* Saint-François-Xavier-de-Viger *

Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup () is a municipality (Quebec), municipality in Quebec, Canada, in the administrative region of Bas-Saint-Laurent and the regional county municipality of Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality, Rivière-du- ...

* Saint-Modeste *

Saint-Paul-de-la-Croix Saint-Paul-de-la-Croix () is a municipality (Quebec), municipality in Quebec, Canada, in the regional county municipality of Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality and the administrative region of Bas-Saint-Laurent. See also * List of mu ...

;Parishes (2) * Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs * Saint-Arsène ;Native Reserves (1)
*

Kataskomiq Kataskomiq is an Indian reserve listed by the Canadian Geographical Names Database. The reserve belongs to the Wolastoqiyik Wahsipekuk (Viger) First Nation, Maliseet people. It is not listed by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada or the las ...

Transportation

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:Official Transport Quebec Road Map
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References

Regional county municipalities in Bas-Saint-Laurent Census divisions of Quebec Rivière-du-Loup {{BasSaintLaurent-geo-stub