Pointe-aux-Outardes

Pointe-aux-Outardes () is a village municipality in Quebec, Canada, on the southern point of the Manicouagan Peninsula between the mouths of the Outardes and Manicouagan Rivers.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Pointe-aux-Outardes
Settlement.settlement_type: Village municipality
Settlement.image_skyline: Plage pointe-aux-outardes.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Beach of Pointe-aux-Outardes
Settlement.flag_size: 120x100px
Settlement.shield_size: 100x80px
Settlement.mapsize: 200px
Settlement.pushpin_map: Côte-Nord Region Quebec
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Côte-Nord region of Quebec
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Canada
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Quebec
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Côte-Nord
Settlement.subdivision_type3: RCM
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Manicouagan
Settlement.established_title: Settled

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Official website

Accueil - Municipalité de Pointe-Aux-Outardes

La municipalité de Pointe-aux-Outardes, dans la Manicouagan, offre des services complets et diversifiés à ses citoyens.

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Wikidata facts

Demonym: Outardéenne
Country: Canada
Located in: Manicouagan
Population: 1429
Area: 111.40
Shares border with: Baie-Comeau
Official website: www.pointe-aux-outardes.ca
Image: Pont couvert Baie Saint-Ludger.JPG

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Commons category: Pointe-aux-Outardes
inception: 1964-01-01

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Pointe-aux-Outardes () is a village municipality in Quebec, Canada, on the southern point of the Manicouagan Peninsula between the mouths of the Outardes and Manicouagan Rivers.

The place is named after a piece of land that juts out into the Saint Lawrence River and partially encloses the Outardes Bay: Pointe aux Outardes. It literally means "Point of Bustards", but Outarde can also be translated as "Canada goose". In fact, Canada geese and snow geese use the nearby Manicouagan River as a corridor in their annual migration and stopover at the point. The Innu called it Piletipistu Neshkâu, meaning "point of the Partridge River". But the term Outardes was used on Guérard's map of 1631 and on Franquelin's map of 1685 to identify the river that flows past the point into the St. Lawrence.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pointe-aux-Outardes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.