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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 ...
Populated places in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean (4 C) Protected areas of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean (26 P) S. Geography of Saguenay, Quebec (2 C, 20 P)
On the other hand, the GDP of the Saguenay CMA in 2009 totaled $6 billion compared to the $9.1 billion GDP of Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean. Cobalt Aircraft operates a manufacturing plant in the city. On January 17, 2011, the company chose Saguenay for the assembly plant of the aircraft Co50, an advanced, high-end propeller plane.
Route 381 is a provincial highway located in the Capitale-Nationale and Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean regions of Quebec, Canada. It runs from Baie-Saint-Paul (in Charlevoix ) at the junction of Route 138 and ends in the La Baie sector of the City of Saguenay at the junction of Route 170 .
Autoroute 70, or A-70, is a short Autoroute located in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of northern Quebec. It is the only Autoroute that does not connect to any other Autoroutes, although other Autoroutes have discontiguous segments (such as A-20 and A-30). A-70 was first created in 1983, and has since been extended three times.
Appeared in Regions of Quebec, Lac-Saint-Jean, Chicoutimi and the north coast of the St. Lawrence, Description of surveyed cantons, explorations of territories and surveys of rivers and lakes, from 1889 to 1908, published by the Department des Terres et Forêts, Québec, 1908, page 6. The word aulnaie designates a place planted with alders.
Pointe-Taillon National Park (French: Parc national de la Pointe-Taillon, pronounced [paʁk nɑsjɔnal də la pwɛ̃t tajɔ̃]) is a provincial park in Quebec, Canada. [2] It is located on the north shore of Lac Saint-Jean, northwest of Saguenay (city), northwest of Alma, near the village of Saint-Henri-de-Taillon, on the banks of Lac Saint-Jean.