Beauce-Centre 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

Chaudière-Appalaches Chaudière-Appalaches () is an administrative region in Quebec, Canada. It comprises most of what is historically known as the "Beauce" (french: La Beauce; compare with the electoral district of Beauce). It is named for the Chaudière River and ...

region of southeastern

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

, Canada. It is located on the

Chaudière River The Chaudière River (French for "Cauldron" or "Boiler"; Abenaki: Kik8ntekw) is a river with its source near the Town of Lac-Mégantic, in southeast Quebec, Canada. From its source Lake Mégantic in the Estrie region, it runs northwards to flo ...

, between

La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality La Nouvelle-Beauce (''New Beauce'') is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region in southeastern Quebec, Canada, south of the Saint Lawrence River. It is located south of Lévis, along the Chaudière River. Established ...

and

Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality Beauce-Sartigan is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. The county seat is Saint-Georges. The Chaudière River flows through it. It shares its eastern border with Maine, United States. The nam ...

. Established in 1982 as the successor to Beauce County under the name Robert-Cliche, Beauce-Centre is made up of ten municipalities and is mainly French-speaking. The territory is a mix of urban and rural.

Beauceville Beauceville is a city in, and the seat of, the Municipalité régionale de comté Beauce-Centre in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population was 6,185 as of the Canada 2021 Census. Beauceville's new cons ...

, the county seat, is the most populated municipality. It was originally named after Quebecois politician, writer, lawyer, and judge

Robert Cliche Robert (12 April 1921 – 15 September 1978) was a Canadian lawyer, politician and judge. Biography Born and raised in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, in the Beauce region of Quebec, Robert Cliche studied law at Laval University from 1941 to 1944. ...

. He was born in

Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce is a city in the Municipalité régionale de comté Beauce-Centre in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population was 5,014 as of the Canada 2021 Census. The new city constitution dat ...

, one of Beauce-Centre's municipalities. The regional county municipality's name was officially changed on .

Subdivisions

There are 10 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (2) *

;Municipalities (3) * Saint-Alfred *

Saint-Joseph-des-Érables Saint-Joseph-des-Érables is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté Beauce-Centre in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 377 as of 2021. Saint-Joseph-des-Érables lies on the we ...

* Saint-Victor ;Parishes (4) * Saint-Frédéric * Saint-Jules * Saint-Odilon-de-Cranbourne * Saint-Séverin ;Villages (1) * Tring-Jonction

Transportation

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border: * Autoroutes ** * Principal Highways ** ** ** * Secondary Highways ** * External Routes ** None

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Robert-Cliche Regional County Municipality

Regional county municipalities in Chaudière-Appalaches Census divisions of Quebec Quebec City Area {{ChaudièreAppalaches-geo-stub

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