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Tortue River
The Tortue River (French: Rivière Tortue; English: Turtle River) is a river in the Côte-Nord administrative region, in the province of Quebec, Canada. The course of this river successively crosses the RCM of:
- Sept-Rivières Regional County Municipality: in unorganized territory of Rivière-Nipissis;
- Minganie Regional County Municipality: in unorganized territory of Lac-Jérôme, then the municipality of Rivière-au-Tonnerre.
It flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
The southern part of the Tortue River watershed is served by the route 138 which runs along the north shore of the estuary of Saint Lawrence.