Puvirnituq
Sign in to savePuvirnituq (), also known by its previously official name of Povungnituk, is a northern village (Inuit community) in Nunavik, on the Povungnituk River near its mouth on Hudson Bay in northern Quebec, Canada. Its population was 2,129 as of the 2021 Canadian census.
Key facts
- Settlement.established_date1
- September 2, 1989
- Settlement.name
- Puvirnituq
- Settlement.native_name
- ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᖅ
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ike
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Northern village municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Puvirnituq - Mai 2012.JPG
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Canada Quebec
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Canada
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Quebec
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Nord-du-Québec Nunavik
- Settlement.subdivision_type4
- Equivalent territory (TE)
- Settlement.subdivision_name4
- Kativik
- Settlement.established_title1
- Constituted
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Levi Amarualik
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- Puvirniturmiuq
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Kativik Regional Government
- Population
- 2129
- Area
- 111.50
- Shares border with
- Baie-d'Hudson
- Official website
- www.nvpuvirnituq.ca
- Image
- Puvirnituq - Mai 2012.JPG
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- Commons category
- Puvirnituq
- native label
- ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᖅ
- inception
- 1952-00-00
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Puvirnituq (), also known by its previously official name of Povungnituk, is a northern village (Inuit community) in Nunavik, on the Povungnituk River near its mouth on Hudson Bay in northern Quebec, Canada. Its population was 2,129 as of the 2021 Canadian census.
Of all other northern villages in Nunavik (VN), only Puvirnituq has no Inuit reserved land (TI) of the same name associated with it.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Puvirnituq” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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