Mauricie
The Mauricie region of Quebec stretches from the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, about halfway between Montreal and Quebec City, deep into the Laurentian Mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include La Tuque and Trois-Rivières.
La Tuque
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La Tuque is a town in Haute-Mauricie, in La Tuque Region of the province of Quebec. It is the second largest municipality in Quebec by area after the municipality of Baie-James, and the sixth largest in Canada.
Trois-Rivières
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Trois-Rivières is the second-oldest city in Quebec, founded in 1634. It lies almost half-way between Montreal and Quebec City and can make a nice stopover on travel between those two cities.
Shawinigan
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Shawinigan is a city of 50,000 people in the Mauricie region of Quebec. It arose because of its tremendous hydro-electric generation capacity, and is now focusing on tourism.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Mékinac and Maskinongé Region.
Mékinac
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Mékinac is a regional county municipality of 5,607 km2 located in the administrative region of Mauricie, along the Saint-Maurice River, which also crosses the RCM from one end to the other, and the Matawin River, a tributary of the Saint-Maurice.
Maskinongé Region
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Maskinongé Regional County Municipality is a region west of Trois-Rivières on the Saint Lawrence River in Mauricie. Louiseville is the region's largest town.
La Tuque Region
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La Tuque Region 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.
Les Chenaux
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Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality is an area east of Trois-Rivières, in Mauricie. It sits between the villages of Champlain and Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade on north shore of the St. Lawrence River.
Saint-Maurice Wildlife Reserve
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The Réserve faunique du Saint-Maurice is a public conservation and development area, in Mauricie, in Quebec in Canada. This reserve offers a variety of recreational tourism activities for vacationers: hiking trails, water sports, camping, in a wild environment.
Mastigouche Wildlife Reserve
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The Mastigouche Wildlife Reserve is a public territory for the conservation, development and practice of recreational activities. It extends into the administrative regions of Lanaudière and Mauricie, in Quebec in Canada.
Mauricie
- Type: administrative region of Quebec with 266,000 residents
- Description: administrative region in Quebec, Canada
- Neighbors: Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Centre-du-Québec, Lanaudière, Laurentians, Outaouais, and Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean
- Location: Central Quebec, Quebec, Canada, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Mauricie” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Mauricie”
- Albanian: “Mauricie”
- Atikamekw: “Nitaskinan”
- Basque: “Mauricie”
- Belarusian: “Марысі”
- Catalan: “Mauricie”
- Cebuano: “Mauricie”
- Chinese: “Mauricie”
- Chinese: “莫里西区”
- Dutch: “Mauricie”
- Egyptian Arabic: “موريسى”
- Esperanto: “Maŭricio”
- Estonian: “Mauricie”
- Finnish: “Mauricie”
- French: “Mauricie–Bois-Francs”
- French: “Mauricie”
- French: “Trois-Rivières”
- German: “Mauricie”
- Greek: “Μωρισί-Μπουά-Φραν”
- Greek: “Μωρισί”
- Greek: “Τρουά-Ριβιέρ”
- Haitian: “Mauricie”
- 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”
- Polish: “Mauricie”
- Portuguese: “Mauricie”
- Russian: “Мориси”
- Scots: “Mauricie”
- Slovenian: “Mauricie”
- Spanish: “Mauricie”
- Swedish: “Mauricie”
- Turkish: “Mauricie”
- Ukrainian: “Морісі”
- “Mauricie”
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