Lake Sautauriski is a freshwater body crossed from north to south by the Sautauriski River, flowing in the unorganized territory of Lac-Jacques-Cartier, in the

La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality La Côte-de-Beaupré is a regional county municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is Château-Richer. Its most populous community is the municipality of Boischatel. Subdivisions There are 11 subdivisions within ...

, in the administrative region of

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, in

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, in

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. Sautauriski Lake is located in

Jacques-Cartier National Park Jacques-Cartier National Park (french: Parc national de la Jacques-Cartier) is a provincial park located north of Quebec City. The park aims to protect wildlife in the Laurentian massif. It lies within the Eastern forest-boreal transition ecoregi ...

. The watershed area of Sautauriski Lake is mainly served on the east side by the route 175 which links the towns of

and Saguenay. Few secondary roads served also this area for the needs of forestry and recreational tourism activities.Open Street Map - Accessed January 18, 2020
/ref> Forestry is the main economic activity in the sector; recreational tourism, second. The surface of Lake Sautauriski is generally frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March; safe circulation on the ice is generally done from the end of December to the beginning of March.

Geography

Lake Sautauriski has a length of , a width of and its surface is at an altitude of . The Sautauriski dam is located at its mouth, at the bottom of a bay in the southern part of the lake. This lake encased between the mountains has five large bays, the longest of which stretches over to the northeast and receives from the northeast the discharge from the Sautauriski River. Lac Fossambault is located to the west. The lake has an area of . Despite its small size, it is the largest of the 216 bodies of water in

. We find at the mouth of the lake the Sautauriski dam, which has a height of and a capacity of . From the dam at the mouth of Lake Sautauriski, the current descends for generally southward following the course of the Sautauriski River; then generally south on along the current of the Jacques-Cartier river to the northeast shore of the

St. Lawrence River The St. Lawrence River (french: Fleuve Saint-Laurent, ) is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. Its headwaters begin flowing from Lake Ontario in a (roughly) northeasterly direction, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, connecting ...

Toponymy

The toponym "Lac Sautauriski" was formalized on December 5, 1968, by the

Commission de toponymie du Québec The Commission de toponymie du Québec (English: ''Toponymy Commission of Québec'') is the Government of Québec's public body responsible for cataloging, preserving, making official and publicize Québec's place names and their origins according ...

.Commission de toponymie du Québec - Lac Sautauriski - accessed January 18, 2020
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Jacques-Cartier National Park

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Toponymy

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