Lac-à-la-Tortue
Lac-à-la-Tortue, is a sector of the city of Shawinigan since 2002, it is located in Mauricie, Quebec, Canada. The use includes the Lac-à-la-Tortue sector in Batiscanie, the common name for the watershed of the Batiscan River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: sector in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada
- Neighbors: Hérouxville, Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, and Shawinigan
Places of Interest
Highlights include Centrale de Grand-Mère.
Centrale de Grand-Mère
Power station
Photo: Fralambert, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Centrale de Grand-Mère is a power station, which is situated 3½ km west of Lac-à-la-Tortue.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grand-Mère and Hérouxville.
Grand-Mère
Suburb
Photo: Fralambert, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grand-Mère is a settlement and former municipality in central Quebec, Canada on the Saint-Maurice River. As a result of the municipal reorganization in Quebec which took effect at the beginning of 2002, Grand-Mère now forms part of the City of Shawinigan. Grand-Mère is situated 4½ km west of Lac-à-la-Tortue.
Hérouxville
Photo: Veillg1, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hérouxville is a picturesque locality of the Moyen-Mauricie at the southeastern limit of the Laurentian shield, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, in the regional county municipality of Mékinac, in Mauricie.
Lac-à-la-Tortue
- Categories: town, administrative sector, and locality
- Location: Shawinigan, Mauricie, Central Quebec, Quebec, Canada, North America
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Latitude
46.61148° or 46° 36′ 41″ northLongitude
-72.63336° or 72° 38′ 0″ westElevation
132 metres (433 feet)Open location code
87R9J968+HMOpenStreetMap ID
node 1174364524OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Lac-à-la-Tortue” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Lac-à-la-Tortue”
- Dutch: “Lac-à-la-Tortue”
- French: “Lac-a-la-tortue”
- French: “Lac-a-la-Tortue”
- French: “Lac-à-la-tortue”
- French: “Lac-à-la-Tortue”
- French: “Lac-À-La-Tortue”
- Persian: “لک ا له ترتو”
- Turkish: “Lac-à-la-Tortue”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lac-à-la-Tortue Seaplane Base and Lac Lafontaine.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lac-à-la-Tortue”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.