Les Etchemins is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches

Chaudière-Appalaches

Chaudière-Appalaches is an administrative region in Quebec, Canada. It comprises most of what is historically known as the "Beauce" |the electoral district of Beauce]]). It is named for the Chaudière River and the Appalachian Mountains....

 region of eastern Quebec

Quebec

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, Canada

Canada

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. Created in 1982, it is named for the Etchemin River

Etchemin River

The Etchemin River is a river in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of eastern Quebec.It gave its name to Les Etchemins Regional County Municipality. The river itself was named for the Abenaki native people of the area who the French called "les Etchemins"...

 which finds its source in the region, as well as Etchemin Lake. Lac-Etchemin

Lac-Etchemin, Quebec

Lac-Etchemin is a municipality in and the seat of the Municipalité régionale de comté des Etchemins in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 4,088 as of 2009. It takes its name from Etchemin Lake, at the centre of the municipality...

 is the seat of the RCM. Les Etchemins can be found on the Maine

Maine

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 border, southeast of Quebec City

Quebec City

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Communities

• Municipalities
  • Lac-Etchemin
    Lac-Etchemin, Quebec
    Lac-Etchemin is a municipality in and the seat of the Municipalité régionale de comté des Etchemins in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 4,088 as of 2009. It takes its name from Etchemin Lake, at the centre of the municipality...
    
    
  • Saint-Benjamin
    Saint-Benjamin, Quebec
    Saint-Benjamin is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté des Etchemins in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 861 as of 2009. It is named after Reverend Benjamin Demers, promoter of the new parish in 1895.-Sources:**...
    
    
  • Sainte-Aurélie
    Sainte-Aurélie, Quebec
    Sainte-Aurélie is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté des Etchemins in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 956 as of 2009. It is named after Sister Sainte-Aurélie, an Ursuline nun at the end of the 19th century.Sainte-Aurélie has a...
    
    
  • Sainte-Justine
    Sainte-Justine, Quebec
    Sainte-Justine is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté des Etchemins in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 1,835 as of 2009...
    
    
  • Sainte-Rose-de-Watford
    Sainte-Rose-de-Watford, Quebec
    Sainte-Rose-de-Watford is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté des Etchemins in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 747 as of 2009. It is named after Rose of Lima, the first Catholic saint of the Americas and Watford, a town in...
    
    
  • Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague
    Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, Chaudière-Appalaches, Quebec
    Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté des Etchemins in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region, and the population is 462 as of 2009. It lies on the Canada-United States border.-Name:...
    
    
  • Saint-Luc-de-Bellechasse
  • Saint-Magloire
    Saint-Magloire, Quebec
    Saint-Magloire is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté des Etchemins in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 735 as of 2009. It is named after reverend Joseph-Magloire Rioux, first priest of the parish in 1863.-References:**...
    
    
  • Saint-Prosper
  • Saint-Zacharie
    Saint-Zacharie, Quebec
    Saint-Zacharie is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté des Etchemins in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 1,913 as of 2009. The new constitution dates from 1990, when the township municipality and the village municipality of...
    
    

• Parishes
  • Saint-Camille-de-Lellis
    Saint-Camille-de-Lellis, Quebec
    Saint-Camille-de-Lellis is a parish in the Municipalité régionale de comté des Etchemins in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 895 as of 2009. It is named after Reverend Camille-Stanislas Brochu, first priest of the parish.Saint-Camille-de-Lellis...
    
    
  • Saint-Cyprien
    Saint-Cyprien, Chaudière-Appalaches, Quebec
    Saint-Cyprien is a parish in the Municipalité régionale de comté des Etchemins in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 635 as of 2009. It is named after Christian martyr Cyprian....
    
    
  • Sainte-Sabine
    Sainte-Sabine, Chaudière-Appalaches, Quebec
    Sainte-Sabine is a parish in the Municipalité régionale de comté des Etchemins in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 384 as of 2009. It is named after the Basilica of Saint Sabina at the Aventine, where cardinal Louis-Nazaire Bégin often went during...
    
    

Highways

Highways in Les Etchemins include:

• Route 204
  Quebec route 204
  Route 204 is a finite two-lane east/west highway on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. It is one of the longest secondary highways in the province. Its eastern terminus is in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli at the junction of Route 132 and the western terminus is in Lac-Mégantic at the...
  
  
• Route 275
  Quebec route 275
  Route 275 is a two-lane north/south highway in the Chaudière-Appalaches region in the province of Quebec. Its northern terminus is in Saint-Romuald, now part of Lévis at the junction of Route 132 and its southern terminus is in Saint-Côme-Linière at the junction of Route 173.-Towns along Route...
  
  
• Route 277
  Quebec route 277
  Route 277 is a two-lane north/south highway in the Chaudière-Appalaches region in the province of Quebec, Canada. Its northern terminus is in Saint-Henri at the junction of Route 173 and its southern terminus is in Sainte-Aurélie at the junction of Route 275....
  
  
• Route 281
  Quebec route 281
  Route 281 is a 75 km two-lane north/south highway in the Chaudière-Appalaches region in the province of Quebec, Canada. Its northern terminus is in St-Michel at the junction of Route 132 and its southern terminus is close to Saint-Camille-de-Lellis at the junction of Route 204.-Towns along Route...
  
  

External links

• Les Etchemins Regional County Municipality website