River des Chutes
| River des Chutes | |
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 River des Chutes (Quebec)
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| Native name | Rivière des Chutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Basin features | |
| Main source | Lac Noir (Black Lake) (at the limit of Hérouxville and Saint-Narcisse) |
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Saint-Stanislas (Les Chenaux), province (Quebec), Canada 46°31′48″N 72°22′29″W / 46.53°N 72.37472°WCoordinates: 46°31′48″N 72°22′29″W / 46.53°N 72.37472°W |
| River system | St. Lawrence River |
| Basin size | 76.1 km2 (29.4 sq mi) |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Length | 20.4 km (12.7 mi) |
The River des Chutes (River of the Falls) drains mainly the municipality of Saint-Narcisse, and also Saint-Stanislas, at the end of its course. These municipalities are located in the Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Mauricie, in the province of Quebec, Canada.
River des Chutes flows over 20.4 kilometres (12.7 mi) (including 1.7 km in Saint-Stanislas at the end of it path) and drains a watershed of an area of 76.1 square kilometres (29.4 sq mi) (including watershed Sanschagrin stream, in Saint-Stanislas).
Source
This river of the Batiscanie rises in "Lac Noir" (Black Lake) (popularly designated "Morin Lake"), located at 1.7 kilometres (1.1 mi) (measured in direct line) at the East of Lac-à-la-Tortue, at the limit of Hérouxville, Quebec (Row X) and Saint-Narcisse (Row "Côte Saint-Pierre Coté Sud" and First row of Radnor). Because of the geographical position of the lake, the "chemin de la Grande ligne" (Great Line road) makes a curve around the lac on the north. Formerly, the discharge from the "Lac Noir" (Black Lake) flows to Ataca Lake (located in Hérouxville, located at 0.8 km lower to the west), which flows to "Lac à la Tortue" (Turtle Lake) where it discharges at the limit of Hérouxville and Lac-à-la-Tortue (a sector of Shawinigan). Following a better irrigation of these wetlands, the "Lac Noir" (Black lake) shrank and instead flows south into the "Rivière des chutes".
Thus, the main source of the "Rivière des chutes" begins at the edge of the Lordships of Batiscan and Champlain, in a wet area, where it flows southeast for approximately 1.9 kilometres (1.2 mi) (measured in a straight line) in the First row of Radnor. Being sometimes tortuous, the path of this small river roughly follows the "Grande ligne" (Great line) on 3.4 km (measured in a straight line), crossing back and for this limit on eight times between the 1st row of Radnor and Frigon road. To overcome this obstacle (course of the river), a 2.6 kilometres (1.6 mi) road segment passes about 140 metres (460 ft) south of the "Grande Ligne" (Great line) in the "First row of the falls" (Premier rang des chutes).
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