Grandes-Piles
Grandes-Piles | |
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Grandes-Piles as seen from Shawinigan | |
Location within Mékinac RCM | |
| Coordinates: 46°41′N 72°44′W / 46.683°N 72.733°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| Region | Mauricie |
| RCM | Mékinac |
| Settled | c. 1850 |
| Constituted | August 10, 1885 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Caroline Clément |
| • Federal riding | Saint-Maurice—Champlain |
| • Prov. riding | Laviolette |
| Area | |
• Total | 124.80 km2 (48.19 sq mi) |
| • Land | 116.97 km2 (45.16 sq mi) |
| Population (2021) | |
• Total | 493 |
| • Density | 4.2/km2 (11/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2016-2021 | 18.8% |
| • Dwellings | 324 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | |
| Area code | 819 |
| Highways | R-155 R-159 |
| Census profile | |
| MAMROT info | 35040 |
| Toponymie info | 228457 |
| Website | www |
Grandes-Piles (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃d pil]) is a village municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada.
The name of Grandes-Piles (literally "large piles") has uncertain origin. One of the best-known but false explanations is that it referred to a stack of logs entanglement on the rocks of the Saint-Maurice that inspired the early settlers. Another explanation claims that it referred to the large rocks used by the indigenous Americans to grind grain. It may also refer to the stack of stratums, horizontal sedimentary layers that are exposed in this part of the Mauricie.
It is twinned with the city of Clamecy, Nièvre in France since 1996.