Beauce-Sartigan | |
Settlement Type: | Regional county municipality |
Coordinates: | 45.9667°N -109°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Quebec |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Chaudière-Appalaches |
Established Title: | Effective |
Established Date: | January 1, 1982 |
Seat Type: | County seat |
Seat: | Saint-Georges |
Parts Type: | Communities |
P1: | City |
P2: | Saint-Georges |
P3: | |
P4: | Municipalities |
P5: | Courcelles-Saint-Évariste |
P6: | Saint-Benoît-Labre |
P7: | Saint-Côme–Linière |
P8: | Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce |
P9: | Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce |
P10: | Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley |
P11: | Saint-Philibert |
P12: | Saint-Simon-les-Mines |
P13: | Saint-Théophile |
P14: | |
P15: | Parishes |
P16: | Notre-Dame-des-Pins |
P17: | Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset |
P18: | Saint-Martin |
P19: | Saint-René |
P20: | |
P21: | Villages |
P22: | Lac-Poulin |
P23: | La Guadeloupe |
Government Type: | Prefecture |
Leader Title: | Prefect |
Leader Name: | Luc Lemieux |
Area Total Km2: | 1,977.00 |
Area Land Km2: | 1,954.50 |
Population Total: | 52,406 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Density Km2: | 26.8 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2011-2016 |
Population Blank1: | 2.7% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 24,195 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Area Codes: | 418 and 581 |
Beauce-Sartigan is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. The county seat is Saint-Georges.
The Chaudière River flows through it. It shares its eastern border with Maine, United States.
The name of the RCM is linked to the historical region of which it is part, Beauce. Sartigan is a distortion of Mechatigan (or Msakkikhan), the name given to the Chaudière River by the native Abenakis.
There are 16 subdivisions within the RCM:
Source: 2016 Census
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[1]