La Haute-Côte-Nord Regional County Municipality

La Haute-Côte-Nord is a regional county municipality in northeastern Quebec, Canada, in the Côte-Nord region. It is located on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence where the Saguenay River flows into it. The seat is Les Escoumins. The municipality has a land area of 11,612.68 square kilometres (4,483.68 sq mi) and its population was 10,846 inhabitants as of the 2016 census.[3] Its largest community is the city of Forestville.

La Haute-Côte-Nord
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 48°34′N 69°14′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Côte-Nord
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Les Escoumins
Government [2]
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Pierre Laurencelle
Area [2][3]
• Total	12,430.90 km^2 (4,799.60 sq mi)
• Land	11,612.68 km^2 (4,483.68 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[3]
• Total	10,846
• Density	0.6/km^2 (2/sq mi)
• Change 2011-2016	6.1%
• Dwellings	5,708
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Website	www.mrchcn.qc.ca
[4]

Except for Sacré-Coeur, which is located along the Saguenay River, all places and municipalities of the RCM are along Quebec Route 138 directly on the shores of the Saint Lawrence River. The unorganized territory of Lac-au-Brochet makes up some 83% of the interior part of the RCM.

Subdivisions

There are 9 subdivisions and one native reserve within the RCM:[2]

Cities & Towns (1) Forestville

Municipalities (6) Colombier Les Bergeronnes Les Escoumins Longue-Rive Portneuf-sur-Mer (formerly Sainte-Anne-de-Portneuf) Sacré-Coeur

Villages (1) Tadoussac

Unorganized Territory (1) Lac-au-Brochet

Native Reserves (1) (not associated with RCM) Essipit

Transportation

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[5]

Autoroutes None

Principal Highways Route 138 Route 172

Secondary Highways None

External Routes None

See also

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec

References

1. Reference number 141095 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (in French)
2. Geographic code 950 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (in French)
3. "Census Profile, 2016 Census: La Haute-Côte-Nord, Municipalité régionale de comté [Census division], Quebec". Statistics Canada. Retrieved November 29, 2019.
4. "(Code 2495) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012.
5. Official Transport Quebec Road Map

• La Haute-Côte-Nord Regional County Municipality Statistics Canada