Rivière des Vases | |
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Location | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Centre-du-Québec |
Regional County Municipality | Arthabaska |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | La Montagne ( Appalachian Mountains) |
• location | Ham-Nord |
• coordinates | 45°51′22″N 71°37′01″W / 45.856109°N 71.617009°W |
• elevation | 336 m (1,102 ft) |
Mouth | Nicolet River |
• location | Ham-Nord |
• coordinates | 45°53′12″N 71°41′48″W / 45.88667°N 71.69666°W |
• elevation | 173 m (568 ft) |
Length | 12.9 km (8.0 mi) |
Basin features | |
Progression | Nicolet River, St. Lawrence River |
Tributaries | |
• left | (upstream) ruisseau Demers, ruisseau Grimard, ruisseau Guertin, ruisseau Richer |
• right | (upstream) |
The rivière des Vases (in English: river of vases) is a tributary of the Nicolet River which empties on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. The Rivière des Vases flows through the municipalities of Ham-Nord and Saints-Martyrs-Canadiens, in the regional county municipality (MRC) of Arthabaska Regional County Municipality, in the region from Centre-du-Québec, to Quebec, to Canada.
The neighboring hydrographic slopes of the Vases river are:
The "rivière des Vases" has its source north of "La Montagne" in the township municipality of Ham-Nord, almost at the limit of the municipality of Saints-Martyrs-Canadiens.
From its source, the "Rivière des Vases", the river flows over 12.9 kilometres (8.0 mi) in the following segments:
The Rivière des Vases flows on the east bank of the Nicolet River in Ham-Nord, downstream from the hamlet "village-des-Chutes" and upstream from the hamlet "Notre-Dame-de- Ham".
The hydronym "Rivière des Vases" originates from a zone of mud near the confluence of the Demers stream and the "Rivière des Vases".
The term vase refers to the siltation of a place by:
The toponym "rivière des Vases" was made official on December 5, 1968, at the Commission de toponymie du Québec. [2]
Features extracted from the map geographic, database and site instrumentation