Les Chenaux

Municipalité régionale de comté Les Chenaux
Country	Canada
province	Quebec
Administrative region	Mauricie
main place	Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes
Residents	17,667 (2011)
surface	870.6 km²
Population density	20.3 inhabitants / km²
founding	January 1, 2002

Les Chenaux is a regional county municipality ( French municipalité régionale du comté, MRC ) in the Canadian province of Québec .

It is located in the administrative region of Mauricie and consists of ten subordinate administrative units (six municipalities and four districts). The MRC was founded on January 1, 2002 and arose from the merger of the disbanded regional communities Francheville and Center-de-la-Mauricie. The main town is Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes . The population is 17,667 and the area is 870.6 km², which corresponds to a population density of 20.3 inhabitants per km².

structure

Municipality (municipalité)

• Batiscan
• Champlain
• Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade
• Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes
• Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain
• Saint Stanislas

Sprengel (municipalité de paroisse)

• Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel
• Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan
• Saint-Maurice
• Saint-Narcisse

Adjacent MRC and comparable areas

• Mékinac
• Portneuf
• Bécancour
• Trois-Rivières
• Maskinongé
• Shawinigan

Web links

Commons : Les Chenaux  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Statistical data ( Memento from June 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive )