Matawinie Regional County Municipality

Matawinie is a regional county municipality (French municipalité régional du comté, MRC ) in the Canadian province of Quebec.

It is located in the administrative region of Lanaudière and consists of 27 subordinate administrative units ( 13 municipalities, two Sprengel and eleven unincorporated areas). The MRC was established on 1 January 1982. The main town is Rawdon. The population is 51,623 and the area 9578.7 km ², which corresponds to a population density of 5.4 inhabitants per km ².

Structure

Community ( municipalité )

• Chertsey
• Entrelacs
• Notre -Dame-de -la- Merci
• Rawdon
• Saint -Alphonse- Rodriguez
• Sainte- Beatrix
• Saint -Donat
• Sainte- Émélie de l'energie
• Saint- Félix- de -Valois
• Saint -Jean -de- Matha
• Sainte- Marcelline -de- Kildare
• Saint- Michel-des -Saints
• Saint- Zénon

Sprengel ( municipalité de paroisse )

• Saint -Côme
• Saint- Damien

Free community territory ( territoire non- organisé )

• Baie- Atibenne
• Baie -de- la- Bouteille
• Baie- Obaoca
• Lac- Cabasta
• Lac -des- Dix- Milles
• Lac- Devenyns
• Lac- du- Taureau
• Lac -Legendre
• Lac- Matawin
• Lac- Minaki
• Lac -Santé
• Saint -Guillaume -Nord

In the field of MRC Matawinie lies the Indian reservation Manawan, but which is managed independently and forms an enclave.

Adjacent MRC and similar areas

• La Tuque
• Mekinac
• Maskinongé
• D' Autray
• Joliette
• Montcalm
• La Rivière -du-Nord
• Les Pays- d'en Skin
• Les Laurentides
• Antoine- Labelle