Le Haut-Saint-Laurent | |
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Regional county municipality | |
Location in province of Quebec |
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Coordinates: 45°05′N 74°10′W / 45.08°N 74.17°WCoordinates: 45°05′N 74°10′W / 45.08°N 74.17°W | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Montérégie |
Effective | January 1, 1982 |
County seat | Huntingdon |
Government | |
• Type | Prefecture |
• Prefect | Alain Castagner |
Area | |
• Total | 1,242.20 km2 (479.62 sq mi) |
• Land | 1,174.00 km2 (453.28 sq mi) |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 21,197 |
• Density | 18.1/km2 (47/sq mi) |
• Pop 2006–2011 | 3.4% |
• Dwellings | 10,744 |
Population excludes incompletely enumerated First Nations reserves |
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Time zone | EST (UTC−5) |
• Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) |
Area code(s) | 450 and 579 |
Website | www |
Le Haut-Saint-Laurent (Upper Saint Lawrence) is a regional county municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Montérégie region. Its seat is in Huntingdon and it is named for the Saint Lawrence River which forms its western and northwestern boundary.
The RCM was formed on 1 January 1982 from most of historic Huntingdon County.
There are 13 subdivisions and one native reserve within the RCM:
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border: