Kamouraska Regional County Municipality

Kamouraska
Kamouraska
Regional county municipality
	Inselbergs in Saint-André.
	Coordinates: 47°32′N 69°49′W / 47.533°N 69.817°WCoordinates: 47°32′N 69°49′W / 47.533°N 69.817°W
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Bas-Saint-Laurent
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Saint-Pascal
Government
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Yvon Soucy
Area
• Total	2,603.70 km2 (1,005.29 sq mi)
• Land	2,244.73 km2 (866.70 sq mi)
Population (2016)
• Total	21,073
• Density	9.4/km2 (24/sq mi)
• Change; 2011-2016	1.9%
• Dwellings	10,645
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Website	www.mrckamouraska.com

Kamouraska is a regional county municipality in eastern Quebec, Canada. The regional county municipality seat is Saint-Pascal. The other main town is La Pocatière.

The area is an important research, development and education centre for agriculture. Factories in the region produce metal products and public transportation equipment. One of the people instrumental in settling and developing this area was Pascal Taché, an early seigneur.

The name "Kamouraska" comes from an Algonquin word meaning "where rushes grow at the water's edge".^{[citation needed]} ^[5]

Subdivisions[]

There are 19 subdivisions within the RCM:^[2]

Cities & Towns (2)

Municipalities (11)

Parishes (4)

Unorganized Territory (2)

Transportation[]

Access routes[]

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:^[6]

Autoroutes
- A-20 (TCH)

Principal Highways
- Route 132

Secondary Highways

External Routes
- None

References[]

^ Reference number 141101 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (in French)
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Geographic code 140 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (in French)
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Kamouraska, Municipalité régionale de comté [Census division], Quebec". Statistics Canada. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
^ "(Code 2414) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012.
^ 'Kamouraska' comes from the Abenaki, ska moraskua, which means "birch bark here", "there is some white birch bark". This sort of birch bark is used for making canoes and wigwams.
^ Official Transport Quebec Road Map

External links[]

Kamouraska Regional County Municipality Official site

[toponymie-1] Reference number 141101 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (in French)

[mamrot-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Geographic code 140 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (in French)

[census2016-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Kamouraska, Municipalité régionale de comté [Census division], Quebec". Statistics Canada. Retrieved December 17, 2019.

[cp2011-4] "(Code 2414) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012.

[#fn1-5] 'Kamouraska' comes from the Abenaki, ska moraskua, which means "birch bark here", "there is some white birch bark". This sort of birch bark is used for making canoes and wigwams.

[6] Official Transport Quebec Road Map

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hide v t Administrative divisions of Bas-Saint-Laurent (Region 01)
Regional county municipalities and equivalent territories	La Matapédia La Matanie La Mitis Rimouski-Neigette Les Basques Rivière-du-Loup Témiscouata Kamouraska
Municipalities	Causapscal Amqui Matane Métis-sur-Mer Mont-Joli Rimouski Trois-Pistoles Rivière-du-Loup Dégelis Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac Pohénégamook Saint-Pascal La Pocatière
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