Shawinigan
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include La Mauricie National Park.
La Mauricie National Park
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La Mauricie is a national park in the Mauricie region, in Quebec, Canada. Its mission is to protect a representative sample of the Laurentians.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shawinigan station and Former N.A.C. Power House.
Shawinigan station
Railway station
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Shawinigan station is located on Chemin du CN in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada. It is a former CN Rail station and is currently used by Via Rail for two routes running from Montreal.
Former N.A.C. Power House
Museum
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Former N.A.C. Power House is a museum.
Centre Gervais Auto
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Centre Gervais Auto is a 4,125-seat multi-purpose arena in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada that opened on December 27, 2008 and has been the home of the Shawinigan Cataractes since 2008.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shawinigan-Sud.
Shawinigan-Sud
Suburb
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Shawinigan-Sud is a predominantly French-speaking settlement in the Mauricie area in Quebec, Canada, on the Saint-Maurice River. In 1996, its population was 11,804.
Shawinigan
- Type: City with 49,600 residents
- Description: city in Québec, Canada
- Also known as: “Shawinigan, QC” and “Shawinigan, Quebec”
- Neighbors: Grandes-Piles, Hérouxville, Les Chenaux, Maskinongé Region, Mékinac, Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, Saint-Alexis-des-Monts, Saint-Boniface, Saint-Étienne-des-Grès, Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc, Saint-Narcisse, Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac, and Trois-Rives
- Categories: equivalent territory, city or town of Quebec, territory outside RCM in Quebec, census division of Canada, and locality
- Location: Shawinigan, Mauricie, Central Quebec, Quebec, Canada, North America
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Latitude
46.5397° or 46° 32′ 23″ northLongitude
-72.7519° or 72° 45′ 7″ westPopulation
49,600Elevation
123 metres (404 feet)IATA airport code
XFLUnited Nations Location Code
CA SHAOpen location code
87R9G6QX+V7OpenStreetMap ID
node 274107537OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
6145489Wikidata ID
Q141980
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Shawinigan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شاوينيغان”
- Armenian: “Շավինիգան”
- Atikamekw: “Cawinikan”
- Atikamekw: “Shawinigan”
- Basque: “Shawinigan”
- Belarusian: “Шавініган”
- Bengali: “শাওনিগান”
- Cebuano: “Shawinigan”
- Chinese: “沙威尼根”
- Chinese: “沙維尼根”
- Chinese: “沙维尼根”
- Chinese: “舍維寧根”
- Chinese: “舍维宁根”
- Czech: “Shawinigan”
- Danish: “Shawinigan”
- Dutch: “Shawinigan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شاوينيجان”
- Estonian: “Shawinigan”
- Finnish: “Shawinigan”
- French: “Chaouinigane”
- French: “Shawinigan”
- German: “Shawinigan”
- Greek: “Σαουινιγκάν”
- Gujarati: “શોવિનિગન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Shawinigan”
- Hebrew: “שויניגן”
- Hindi: “शवनिगं”
- Indonesian: “Shawinigan”
- Irish: “Shawinigan”
- Italian: “Shawinigan”
- Japanese: “シャウィニガン”
- Japanese: “ショーウィニガン”
- Kannada: “ಶವಿನಿಗನ್”
- Korean: “샤위니간”
- Latvian: “Šavinigana”
- Lithuanian: “Šaviniganas”
- Malagasy: “Shawinigan”
- Malay: “Shawinigan”
- Marathi: “शॉनिगन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shawinigan”
- Persian: “شاوینیگان”
- Polish: “Shawinigan”
- Portuguese: “Shawinigan”
- Romanian: “Shawinigan”
- Russian: “Шавиниган”
- Scots: “Shawinigan”
- Serbian: “Shawinigan”
- Serbian: “Схаwиниган”
- Serbian: “Шавиниган”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Shawinigan”
- Sinhala: “ශවිනිගන්”
- South Azerbaijani: “شاوینیگان”
- Spanish: “Shawinigan (Québec)”
- Spanish: “Shawinigan”
- Swahili: “Shawinigan, Quebec”
- Swahili: “Shawinigan”
- Swedish: “Shawinigan”
- Tamil: “ஷாவினிகன்”
- Telugu: “శావినిగాన్”
- Thai: “ชาวีนีกาน”
- Turkish: “Shawinigan”
- Ukrainian: “Шавініган”
- Urdu: “شاوینیجان”
- Vietnamese: “Shawinigan”
- Volapük: “Shawinigan”
- Welsh: “Shawinigan”
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