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
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Government of Canada, 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 ...
, 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 ...
, which contains more than half of the population.
Major industries include
pulp 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:
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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 ...
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Saint-Antonin
;Municipalities (9)
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Cacouna
Cacouna () is a municipality in the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality within the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec. It is located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River along Route 132.
The municipality of Cacouna was creat ...
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L'Isle-Verte
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Notre-Dame-du-Portage
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Saint-Cyprien
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Saint-Épiphane
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Saint-François-Xavier-de-Viger
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Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup
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Saint-Modeste
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Saint-Paul-de-la-Croix
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Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs
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Saint-Arsène
;Native Reserves (1)
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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 last ...
Transportation
Access Routes
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:
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*External Routes
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See also
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References
Regional county municipalities in Bas-Saint-Laurent
Census divisions of Quebec
Rivière-du-Loup
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