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Rivière du Chêne | |
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Rivière du Chêne at
Leclercville | |
Location | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Chaudière-Appalaches |
MRC | L'Érable Regional County Municipality, Lotbinière Regional County Municipality |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Agricultural and forest streams |
• location | Sainte-Agathe-de-Lotbinière |
• coordinates | 46°23′43″N 71°23′08″W / 46.395318°N 71.385586°W |
• elevation | 181 metres (594 ft) |
Mouth | St. Lawrence River |
• location | Leclercville |
• coordinates | 46°34′29″N 71°59′55″W / 46.57472°N 71.99861°W |
• elevation | 5 metres (16 ft) |
Length | 80.6 kilometres (50.1 mi) |
Basin features | |
River system | St. Lawrence River |
Tributaries | |
• left | (upstream) ruisseau Beaudet, ruisseau Bernier, ruisseau de l'Ours, ruisseau Grégoire, ruisseau Parent, Bras d'Edmond, ruisseau Marion, Bras de Marie, rivière aux Chevreuils, cours d'eau Bouchard, cours d'eau Béland, ruisseau Moffet, Saint-Georges River. |
• right | (upstream) ruisseau des Gagnon, ruisseau du Petit Saint-Charles, ruisseau Pilote, rivière du Bois Clair, Huron River, Henri River, ruisseau Lambert, ruisseau Bergeron, ruisseau Mongrain. |
The rivière du Chêne (in English: Oak River) is a tributary of the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. This river flows in the municipalities of Sainte-Agathe-de-Lotbinière, Saint-Gilles, Dosquet, Lyster (MRC de L'Érable Regional County Municipality), Saint-Janvier-de-Joly, Val-Alain, Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière, Lotbinière and Leclercville, in the Lotbinière Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Chaudière-Appalaches, in Quebec, in Canada.
The main neighboring watersheds of the Chêne River are:
The Chêne River has its source in an agricultural area west of the village of Sainte-Agathe-de-Lotbinière, northeast of route 271 and south from route 218. Near its mouth on the Saint Lawrence it flows past the Moulin du Portage, a historical water-powered flour mill.
The Chêne River flows over 80.6 kilometres (50.1 mi), with a drop of 176 metres (577 ft), divided into the following segments:
Upper course of the river (segment of 21.0 kilometres (13.0 mi))
From its head area, the Chêne River flows over:
Intermediate course of the river (segment of 34.1 kilometres (21.2 mi))
From Route 116, the Chêne River flows over:
Lower course of the river (segment of 25.5 kilometres (15.8 mi))
From the confluence with the Henri River located in Leclercville, the Chêne River flows over:
The Chêne River flows over the Chêne Flats, on the south shore of the estuary of Saint Lawrence, in the village of Leclercville. Its confluence is located at the tip of Leclercville, west of the center of the village of Lotbinière, east of the center of the village of Deschaillons-sur-Saint-Laurent and west of the village of Saint-Édouard. It is also located at 3.3 kilometres (2.1 mi) east of the confluence of the Petite rivière du Chêne.
The toponym Rivière du Chêne was formalized on December 5, 1968, at the Commission de toponymie du Québec. [2]