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Les Éboulements, Quebec

Les Éboulements
Municipality
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Location within Charlevoix RCM.
Location within Charlevoix RCM.
Les Éboulements is located in Central Quebec
Les Éboulements
Les Éboulements
Location in central Quebec.
Coordinates: 47°29′N 70°19′W / 47.483°N 70.317°W / 47.483; -70.317Coordinates: 47°29′N 70°19′W / 47.483°N 70.317°W / 47.483; -70.317
Country  Canada
Province  Quebec
Region Capitale-Nationale
RCM Charlevoix
Settled c. 1710
Constituted September 19, 2001
Government
 • Mayor Bertrand Bouchard
 • Federal riding Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord
 • Prov. riding Charlevoix–Côte-de-Beaupré
Area
 • Total 156.60 km2 (60.46 sq mi)
 • Land 157.45 km2 (60.79 sq mi)
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Elevation 365 m (1,198 ft)
Population (2011)
 • Total 1,328
 • Density 8.4/km2 (22/sq mi)
 • Pop 2006-2011 Increase 5.1%
 • Dwellings 879
Time zone EST (UTC−5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC−4)
Postal code(s) G0A 2M0
Area code(s) 418 and 581
Highways Route 362
Website www.leseboulements.com

Les Éboulements is a municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada.

Its population centres include Les Éboulements (located along Route 362 on the plateau overlooking the Saint Lawrence River), Éboulements-Est (at the feet of Mount Éboulements), Cap-aux-Oies, Sainte-Marie-de-Charlevoix, and Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rive (47°27′30″N 70°22′05″W / 47.45833°N 70.36806°W / 47.45833; -70.36806 on the shores of the Saint Lawrence facing Saint-Bernard-sur-Mer). Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rive, formerly known as Les Éboulements-en-Bas and Quai-des-Éboulements, is the departure point for ferries to L'Isle-aux-Coudres.

The municipality is member of the Association of Most Beautiful Villages of Quebec due to its country heritage and to the beautiful architecture and character of its houses.

Les Éboulements is located in the centre of the Charlevoix crater. Mount Éboulements (Mont des Éboulements), in the eastern part of the municipality, is considered the central rebound of the earth's crust following moments after the meteor impact some 350 million years ago. This mountain, appearing on a map in 1837 by H. W. Bayfield as "Mt Eboulemens" [sic], has an altitude of 770 meters (2,530 ft).

Rivers within the municipality include the Boudreault and Seigneur Rivers, both small tributaries of the Saint Lawrence River.

In February 1663, a strong earthquake shook the Charlevoix region and triggered a large landslide down the slopes that characterize the hills of the area to the Saint Lawrence coast. Among the many eyewitnesses that testified to the significance of the event, priest Lalement wrote: "near the Bay called St. Paul, there was a small mountain alongside the river, a quarter of a league in circumference, which was abyssed, and as if it had not done that dive, it came out of the bottom to change into an islet." Thereafter the area was known as les Éboulements (French for "the landslides").


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