The Lac des Alliés (English: Allied Lake) is a freshwater body crossed west by the Rocheuse River, located 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 withi ...

, in administrative region of

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, in

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, in

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. Lac des Alliés is located entirely in

Jacques-Cartier National Park Jacques-Cartier National Park (, ) 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 ecoregion. History The Montagnais and the Hur ...

. It constitutes an enlargement of the Rocheuse River. The Lac des Alliés watershed is mainly served on the east side by the route 175 which links the towns of

and Saguenay. A few secondary roads serve this area for forestry and recreational tourism activities. Forestry is the main economic activity in the sector; recreational tourism, second. The surface of Lac des Alliés 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

Lac des Alliés has a length of , a width of and its surface is at an altitude of . This lake deep between the mountains is long, resembling a large misshapen N. The

Sautauriski Lake 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, in the administrative region of Ca ...

is located on the east side of the lake; and the course of the

Jacques-Cartier River The Jacques-Cartier River is a river in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is 161 km long and its source is Jacques-Cartier Lake in Laurentides Wildlife Reserve, and flows in a predominantly southern direction before ending in the Saint Lawr ...

is on the north side of the lake. From the mouth of Lac des Alliés, the current descends consecutively on to the west, then north following the course of the rivière Rocheuse; on towards the southwest by following the course of the rivière du Malin; then on generally towards the south along the current of the

to the northeast bank of the

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. The Lac des Alliés has an area of . It is the third largest of the 216 bodies of water in the

. A dam is built at its mouth allowing a water retention height of for a reservoir capacity of .

Toponymy

The name of this body of water would come from the surveyors evoking the memory of the allied troops of the

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.Source: Society of fauna and parks, State of knowledge. Jacques-Cartier National Park, 2004, p. 162. The toponym Lac des Alliés was formalized on December 5, 1968, by the

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.Commission de toponymie du Québec - Lac de la Chute - accessed January 18, 2020
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