Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality
Regional county municipality in Quebec, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Les Chenaux (meaning the channels in French) is a regional county municipality in central Quebec, Canada, in the Mauricie region. The seat is in Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes. It is located adjacent on the east of Trois-Rivières on the Saint Lawrence River. It has a land area of 872.04 square kilometres (336.70 sq mi) and a population of 17,865 inhabitants in the Canada 2011 Census.[4] Its largest community is the parish of Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel.
Les Chenaux | |
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Coordinates: 46°30′N 72°25′W[1] | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Mauricie |
Effective | January 1, 2002 |
County seat | Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes |
Government | |
• Type | Prefecture |
• Prefect | Gérard Bruneau |
Area | |
• Total | 934.40 km2 (360.77 sq mi) |
• Land | 872.04 km2 (336.70 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 17,865 |
• Density | 20.5/km2 (53/sq mi) |
• Pop 2006-2011 | 5.2% |
• Dwellings | 8,393 |
Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
Area code(s) | 819, 418 or 581 |
Website | www |
Les Chenaux is one of the few regional county municipalities in Quebec that does not constitute its own census division; instead, it is grouped with Trois-Rivières as the single census division of Francheville.