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Lac Saint-Jean lies within a elongated rift valley that is known as the Lac Saint-Jean Lowlands. These lowlands are an elongated flat-bottomed basin formed by the Saguenay Graben by the displacement of Grenville crystalline rocks. This basin is 250 km (160 mi) long and 50 km (31 mi) wide.
With a land area of 98,712.71 km 2 (38,113.19 sq mi), Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean is the third-largest Quebec region after Nord-du-Québec and Côte-Nord. This region is bathed by two major watercourses, Lac Saint-Jean and the Saguenay River, both of which mark its landscape deeply and have been the main drives of its development in history. It ...
Route 170 is a major east/west highway on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, and it parallels the Saguenay River on the south side of it. The western terminus of Route 170 is in Métabetchouan–Lac-à-la-Croix at the junction of Route 169, at Lac Saint-Jean, and the eastern terminus is in Saint-Siméon, at the junction of Route 138, close to the Saint Lawrence River.
Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay (ARSACS) is a very rare neurodegenerative genetic disorder that primarily affects people from the Charlevoix and Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean regions of Quebec or descendants of native settlers in this region.
Saguenay (/ ˈ s æ ɡ ə n eɪ, ˌ s æ ɡ ə ˈ n eɪ / SAG-ə-nay, - NAY, French:, locally) is a city in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada, on the Saguenay River, about 200 kilometres (120 mi) north of Quebec City by overland route.
Le Fjord-du-Saguenay (French pronunciation: [lə fjɔʁ dy saɡnɛ], The Fjord of the Saguenay [river]) is a regional county municipality in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. Its seat is Saint-Honoré , which is also its most populous municipality.
Leigh syndrome, French Canadian type, also known as congenital lactic acidosis, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean type, is a rare mitochondrial disorder which is characterized by regular metabolic acidosis, hypotonia, developmental delays and facial dysmorphy. [1] [2] It's associated with mutations in a gene in chromosome 2. Approximately 100 cases of ...
The site is on the north shore of the Saguenay River. The site is in a cove with a wharf. The village is set back from the river, on hilly terrain. [4] It is a parish municipality in the Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality within the region of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean. Théophile Cove, Sainte-Rose-du-Nord