Maskinongé River
| Maskinongé River | |
| "Rivière Maskinongé" (in French) | |
 Maskinongé River at Maskinongé, Quebec
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| Country | Canada |
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| Province | Quebec |
| Region | Mauricie |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | (from the mouth) Ruisseau du rang Double, décharge du lac du rang Double, décharge du Lac Marianne, décharge du Lac François, ruisseau Lafrenière, rivière Blanche, Rivière Mandeville. |
| - right | (from the mouth) La Grande Décharge, Rivière de l'Ormière, ruisseau Penotte, La Grande Coulée, ruisseau au Castor, décharge du Petit lac à Nadon, ruisseau Charbonneau. |
| Source | Lake Maskinongé |
| - location | Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Lanaudière, Quebec, Canada |
| - elevation | 142 m (466 ft) |
| - coordinates | 46°19′16″N 72°21′42″W / 46.32111°N 72.36167°W |
| Mouth | Lake Saint-Pierre |
| - location | Maskinongé, Mauricie, Quebec, Canada |
| - elevation | 3 m (10 ft) |
| - coordinates | 46°09′48″N 73°01′06″W / 46.16333°N 73.01833°WCoordinates: 46°09′48″N 73°01′06″W / 46.16333°N 73.01833°W |
The Maskinongé River is located north of the administrative region of Lanaudière and west of the administrative region of Mauricie, in Quebec, in Canada.
The river has a total length of 40 km. It takes its source in Maskinongé Lake, located in Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon. It crosses the municipalities of Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Saint-Gabriel, and Saint-Didace in the region of Lanaudière; then Saint-Justin, Louiseville, and Maskinongé before pour into the north shore of Lake Saint-Pierre at the height of this municipality.
The name of the river comes from the muskellunge ("Esox masquinongy"), a species of pike from North America. Its name comes from the Algonquin and means "deformed pike".
The Maskinongé River begins its course at an altitude of 142 m in lake of the same name. It then flows south-east for a distance of 52 km and flows into the St. Lawrence River at Maskinongé altitude of 3 m. It has two major gradients: the Lauzon Falls where it drops from 30 m and the Saint-Ursula Falls where it drops from 70 m.
The upstream section of the Sainte-Ursule Falls is part of the Laurentides, a section of the Canadian Shield. The latter formed a billion years ago and was probably as high as the Himalayas. A slow erosion process has brought it back to its current level. The downstream section is part of the St. Lawrence Platform.
The basin was inhabited by a unit of 14,000 people in 2006. The largest urban agglomeration in the basin is the town of Saint-Gabriel, which is located on the shore of the Lac Maskinongé.
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