Précieux-Sang
Bécancour is a city in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, Canada; it is the seat of the Bécancour Regional County Municipality. It is located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River at the confluence of the Bécancour River, opposite Trois-Rivières. Wôlinak, an Abenaki Indian reserve, is an enclave within the town of Bécancour.- Type: Village
- Description: administrative sector in Quebec, Canada, former municipality
- Also known as: “Le Precieux-Sang”, “Le Précieux-Sang”, “Precieux-Sang”, “Précieux-Sang, Quebec”, “Très Précieux Sang de Notre Seigneur”, “Tres-Precieux-Sang-de-Notre-Seigneur”, and “Très-Précieux-Sang-de-Notre-Seigneur, Quebec”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wôlinak Indian Reserve 11 and Saint-Célestin.
Wôlinak Indian Reserve 11
Village
Wôlinak is an Abenaki First Nations reserve in the Centre-du-Québec region, Quebec, Canada. Wôlinak Indian Reserve 11 is situated 4½ km north of Précieux-Sang.
Saint-Célestin
Village
Saint-Célestin is a municipality in Quebec, in the… Saint-Célestin is situated 9 km south of Précieux-Sang.
Sainte-Gertrude
Village
Sainte-Gertrude is a community of the city of Bécancour, Quebec. Sainte-Gertrude is situated 10 km east of Précieux-Sang.
Précieux-Sang
- Categories: former municipality, parish municipality, administrative sector, and locality
- Location: Bécancour, Centre-du-Québec, Central Quebec, Quebec, Canada, North America
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Latitude
46.29183° or 46° 17′ 31″ north
Longitude
-72.40199° or 72° 24′ 7″ west
Open location code
87R97HRX+P6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Turkish—“Précieux-Sang” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Le Précieux-Sang”
- Corsican: “Le Précieux-Sang”
- Danish: “Le Précieux-Sang”
- Dutch: “Précieux-Sang”
- French: “Le Précieux-Sang”
- French: “Très-Précieux-Sang-de-Notre-Seigneur”
- German: “Le Précieux-Sang”
- Indonesian: “Le Précieux-Sang”
- Italian: “Le Précieux-Sang”
- Low German: “Le Précieux-Sang”
- Portuguese: “Le Précieux-Sang”
- Romanian: “Le Précieux-Sang”
- Spanish: “Le Précieux-Sang”
- Swedish: “Le Précieux-Sang”
- Tahitian: “Le Précieux-Sang”
- Turkish: “Précieux-Sang”
- “Le Précieux-Sang”
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