Mauricie

The Mauricie region of stretches from the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, about halfway between and , deep into the Laurentian Mountains.
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is a town in Haute-Mauricie, in of the province of . It is the second largest municipality in Quebec by area after the municipality of , and the sixth largest in Canada.

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is the second-oldest city in , founded in 1634. It lies almost half-way between and and can make a nice stopover on travel between those two cities.

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is a city of 50,000 people in the Mauricie region of . It arose because of its tremendous hydro-electric generation capacity, and is now focusing on tourism.

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is a regional county municipality of 5,607 km2 located in the administrative region of Mauricie, along the , which also crosses the RCM from one end to the other, and the , a tributary of the Saint-Maurice.

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Maskinongé Regional County Municipality is a region west of on the Saint Lawrence River in Mauricie. is the region's largest town.

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is a huge municipality in the Mauricie region of Quebec, covering 28,000 km². It is a bit smaller than Albania, but larger than 34 United Nations member countries.

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Regional County Municipality is an area east of , in Mauricie. It sits between the villages of Champlain and Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade on north shore of the St. Lawrence River.

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The Réserve faunique du Saint-Maurice is a public conservation and development area, in Mauricie, in in . This reserve offers a variety of recreational tourism activities for vacationers: hiking trails, water sports, camping, in a wild environment.

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The is a public territory for the conservation, development and practice of recreational activities. It extends into the administrative regions of and Mauricie, in in .

Mauricie

Latitude of center
47.5501° or 47° 33′ 0″ north
Longitude of center
-73.4158° or 73° 24′ 57″ west
Population
266,000
Elevation
274 metres (899 feet)
Geo­Names ID
6068167
Wiki­data ID
Q510572
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Urdu—“Mauricie” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mauricie”
  • Albanian: “Mauricie”
  • Atikamekw: “Nitaskinan”
  • Basque: “Mauricie”
  • Belarusian: “Марысі”
  • Catalan: “Mauricie”
  • Cebuano: “Mauricie”
  • Chinese: “莫里西区”
  • Dutch: “Mauricie”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “موريسى”
  • Esperanto: “Maŭricio”
  • Estonian: “Mauricie”
  • Finnish: “Mauricie”
  • French: “Mauricie”
  • German: “Mauricie”
  • Greek: “Μωρισί”
  • Haitian: “Morisi”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Mauricie”
  • Irish: “Mauricie”
  • Italian: “Mauricie”
  • Japanese: “モリシー地域”
  • Latin: “Mauricie”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mauricie”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mauricie”
  • Norwegian: “Mauricie”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mauricie”
  • Persian: “موریسی، کبک”
  • Persian: “موریسی”
  • Polish: “Mauricie”
  • Portuguese: “Mauricie”
  • Russian: “Мориси”
  • Scots: “Mauricie”
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  • Swedish: “Mauricie”
  • Turkish: “Mauricie”
  • Ukrainian: “Морісі”
  • Urdu: “موریسی”
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