Caniapiscau Regional County Municipality

Caniapiscau is a regional county municipality in northeastern Quebec, Canada. The regional county municipality seat is Fermont. It is located in the northwest corner of the Côte-Nord region of Quebec. It has a land area of 70,389.37 square kilometres (27,177.49 sq mi) and a 2006 census population of 3,948 inhabitants, two-thirds of whom lived in its largest city of Fermont. The census grouped the municipality's territory with neighboring Sept-Rivières into the single census division of Sept-Rivières—Caniapiscau.

Subdivisions

Cities and towns

• Fermont (Pop: 2,633)
• Schefferville (Pop: 202)

Unorganized territories

• Caniapiscau
• Lac-Juillet
• Lac-Vacher
• Rivière-Mouchalagane

Indian reserves

• Lac-John pop: 16 (within its boundaries but administratively not part of the regional county municipality)
• Matimekosh pop: 528 (within its boundaries but administratively not part of the regional county municipality)

Naskapi reserve land

• Kawawachikamach pop: 569 (within its boundaries but administratively not part of the regional county municipality)

Demographics

• Land area: 70,389.37 km²
• Population: 3,948

Adjacent census divisions

• Nunavik
• Division No. 10, Newfoundland and Labrador
• Sept-Rivières
• Manicouagan
• Le Fjord-du-Saguenay
• Jamésie

References

• Sept-Rivières--Caniapiscau Census Division, Quebec Statistics Canada

External links

• Official site