Grandes-Piles
Grandes-Piles is a recreational tourism and picturesque locality of the Moyen-Mauricie in the Laurentian Shield, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, in the regional county municipality of Mékinac, in Mauricie, in Quebec.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Veillg1, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 493 residents
- Description: village municipality in Quebec, Canada
- Neighbors: Hérouxville, Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac, Saint-Tite, Sainte-Thècle, and Shawinigan
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pointe à la Mine.
Pointe à la Mine
Peak
Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pointe à la Mine is a peak, which is situated 4 km northwest of Grandes-Piles.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saint-Jean-des-Piles.
Saint-Jean-des-Piles
Village
Photo: LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saint-Jean-des-Piles is a community in the Canadian province of Quebec. Formerly a separate parish municipality in the Le Centre-de-la-Mauricie Regional County Municipality, it has been one of the seven sectors of the city of Shawinigan since the municipal amalgamation of January 1, 2002.
Grandes-Piles
- Categories: village municipality of Quebec and locality
- Location: Mékinac, Mauricie, Central Quebec, Quebec, Canada, North America
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Latitude
46.6873° or 46° 41′ 14″ northLongitude
-72.7264° or 72° 43′ 35″ westPopulation
493Elevation
126 metres (413 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA GPLOpen location code
87R9M7PF+WCOpenStreetMap ID
node 360895701OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Grandes-Piles” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غراند بيل”
- Basque: “Grandes-Piles”
- Cebuano: “Grandes-Piles”
- Chinese: “大皮勒”
- Dutch: “Grandes-Piles”
- French: “Grandes-piles”
- French: “Grandes-Piles”
- Greek: “Γκραντ-Πιλ”
- Italian: “Grandes-Piles”
- Persian: “گراند-پیل”
- Portuguese: “Grandes-Piles”
- Spanish: “Grandes-Piles”
- Swedish: “Grandes-Piles”
- Turkish: “Grandes-Piles”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Grandes-Piles”. Photo: Veillg1, CC BY-SA 4.0.