Petit-Mécatina is an unorganized territory in the Côte-Nord

Côte-Nord

Côte-Nord is the second largest administrative region by land area in Quebec, Canada, after Nord-du-Québec...

 region of Quebec, Canada, part of Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality

Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, Quebec

Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent is a Regional county municipality in the Côte-Nord region of far-eastern Quebec, Canada. It includes all the communities along the Gulf of Saint Lawrence between the Natashquan River and the Newfoundland and Labrador border...

. It was formerly part of the Minganie Regional County Municipality

Minganie Regional County Municipality, Quebec

Minganie is a regional county municipality of Quebec in Canada. The regional seat is Havre-Saint-Pierre. Anticosti Island is included within this region. It has a land area of ....

, but transferred to the current MRC in July 2010.

It is named after the Petit (French for "Little) Mécatina River that bisects the territory from north to south and empties in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence

Gulf of Saint Lawrence

The Gulf of Saint Lawrence , the world's largest estuary, is the outlet of North America's Great Lakes via the Saint Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean...

 just west of Petit Mécatina Island. The 545 kilometres (338.6 mi) river forms east of Lake Aticonac just south of the boundary between the Atlantic and Saint Lawrence watersheds, that is also the disputed boundary between Quebec and Labrador. Mécatina comes from the Innu word makatinau and means "large mountain".

Demographics

Population:

• Population in 2006: 0
• Population in 2001: 0
• Population in 1996: 0
• Population in 1991: 0