Réserve de biodiversité de la Vallée-de-la-Rivière-Sainte-Marguerite
Vallée-de-la-Rivière-Sainte-Marguerite Biodiversity Reserve
48.4271° N, 70.3569° W
Réserve de biodiversité de la Vallée-de-la-Rivière-Sainte-Marguerite, Quebec. 48.4271° N, 70.3569° W
Biodiversity reserve, 321 km². Scale bar on the map.
borealbound.ca/parks/qc/reserve-de-biodiversite-de-la-vallee-de-la-riviere-sainte-marguerite/, compiled October 9, 2026
- Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
- HydroLAKES v1.0, Messager et al. 2016 / WWF HydroSHEDS. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Canadian Geographical Names Database, Natural Resources Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
- Census boundaries and population, 2021, Statistics Canada. Adapted from Statistics Canada. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada.
- City page weather forecasts and alerts, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Contains data from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC Data Servers End-use Licence).
Réserve de biodiversité de la Vallée-de-la-Rivière-Sainte-Marguerite is a 321 km² biodiversity reserve 8.3 km northwest of L'Anse-Saint-Jean, in Quebec. It was established in 2022.
26 named lakes lie in or along the park; the largest is Lac Rouge (1.34 km²).
- Area
- 321 km²
- Established
- 2022
- Named lakes
- 26
Conditions today
7.4 °C
Observed at Bagotville, as of 3:00 a.m. EDT
Tonight: A few showers ending this evening then mainly cloudy with 40 percent chance of showers. Risk of a thunderstorm early this evening. Wind west 30 km/h. Low plus 4.
Weather: Bagotville (local forecast), as of 3:03 a.m. EDT
Sun and moon
- Civil dawn
- 6:21 a.m.
- Sunrise
- 6:52 a.m.
- Sunset
- 6:03 p.m.
- Civil dusk
- 6:35 p.m.
- Moonrise
- 5:41 a.m.
- Moonset
- 5:21 p.m.
- Moon
- Waning crescent, 1% lit
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In the park
The 12 largest of 26 named lakes, ranked by area.
| Rank | Feature | Area |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lac Rouge | 1.34 km² |
| 2 | Lac Résimond | 1.07 km² |
| 3 | Lac Fortin | 1.01 km² |
| 4 | Lac Chauvin | 0.77 km² |
| 5 | Premier lac du Portage | 0.61 km² |
| 6 | Lac Savane | 0.54 km² |
| 7 | Deuxième lac du Portage | 0.36 km² |
| 8 | Deuxième lac Onésime | 0.34 km² |
| 9 | Lac Émélie | 0.32 km² |
| 10 | Lac Betty-Baldwin | 0.31 km² |
| 11 | Lac de l'Écluse | 0.31 km² |
| 12 | Lac des Monts | 0.3 km² |
Beaches
Rivers
Official names from the Canadian Geographical Names Database; each name opens its location on OpenStreetMap.
Official record
- Designation
- Biodiversity reserve
- IUCN category
- II, National parkInternational IUCN class, not a legal designation
- Managed by
- Ministère de l'Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs, Direction des aires protégées
Names
- Vallée-de-la-Rivière-Sainte-Marguerite Biodiversity ReserveEnglish form
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