Maria-Chapdelaine | |
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Regional county municipality | |
Coordinates: 48°59′N 72°17′W / 48.983°N 72.283°WCoordinates: 48°59′N 72°17′W / 48.983°N 72.283°W | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean |
Effective | January 1, 1983 |
County seat | Dolbeau-Mistassini |
Government | |
• Type | Prefecture |
• Prefect | Jean-Pierre Boivin |
Area | |
• Total | 38,056.70 km2 (14,693.77 sq mi) |
• Land | 36,770.33 km2 (14,197.10 sq mi) |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 25,279 |
• Density | 0.7/km2 (2/sq mi) |
• Pop (2006–11) | 1.9% |
• Dwellings | 12,098 |
Time zone | EST (UTC−5) |
• Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) |
Area code(s) | 418 and 581 |
Website | www |
Maria-Chapdelaine is a regional county municipality in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. Its seat is in Dolbeau-Mistassini.
It runs from Lac Saint-Jean in the south to the deep interior of northern Quebec in the north.
There are 14 subdivisions within the RCM:
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border: