Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality

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

It is situated in the Mauricie administrative region, and consists of ten subordinate administrative units ( six municipalities and four Sprengel ). The MRC was founded on 1 January 2002 and was born from the merger of the defunct regional communities Ville Franche and Centre -de- la- Mauricie. The capital is Saint- Luc -de- Vincennes. The population is 17,667 and the area of ​​870.6 km ², representing a population density of 20.3 inhabitants per km ².

Structure

Community ( municipalité )

• Batiscan
• Champlain
• Sainte -Anne -de- la- Perade
• Saint- Luc -de- Vincennes
• Saint- Prosper
• Saint- Stanislas

Sprengel ( municipalité de paroisse )

• Notre- Dame-du -Mont- Carmel
• Sainte -Geneviève -de- Batiscan
• Saint- Maurice
• Saint -Narcisse

Adjacent MRC and similar areas

• Mekinac
• Portneuf
• Becancour
• Trois- Rivières
• Maskinongé
• Shawinigan