Lotbinière is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté de Lotbinière

Lotbinière Regional County Municipality, Quebec

Lotbinière is a Regional County Municipality in central Quebec, Canada in the Chaudière-Appalaches region. It is an almost exclusively rural RCM, with no village with a population above 4,000. As of the 2001 Census, the RCM had a population of 26,851, a decrease of 0.3% since 1996. Its seat is in...

 in Quebec

Quebec

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, Canada

Canada

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. It is part of 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 and the population is 909 as of 2009. It is named after seigneurie

Seigneurial system of New France

The seigneurial system of New France was the semi-feudal system of land distribution used in the North American colonies of New France.-Introduction to New France:...

of which it was part. Bordered in the northwest by the Saint Lawrence River

Saint Lawrence River

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, Lotbinière is part of the Most Beautiful Villages of Quebec

Most Beautiful Villages of Quebec

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 network.

Although the new constitution dates from 1979, when the parish of Saint-Louis-de-Lotbinière and the village of Lotbinière amalgamated, the area started to be settled by French colonizers at the end of the 17th century.