Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality
Les Chenaux | |
|---|---|
| Coordinates: 46°30′N 72°25′W / 46.500°N 72.417°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| Region | Mauricie |
| Effective | January 1, 2002 |
| County seat | Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes |
| Government | |
| • Type | Prefecture |
| • Prefect | Gérard Bruneau |
| Area | |
• Total | 934.40 km2 (360.77 sq mi) |
| • Land | 872.04 km2 (336.70 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 17,865 |
| • Density | 20.5/km2 (53/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2006-2011 | 5.2% |
| • Dwellings | 8,393 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Area code(s) | 819, 418 or 581 |
| Website | www |
Les Chenaux (French pronunciation: [le ʃəno], meaning the channels in French) is a regional county municipality in central Quebec, Canada, in the Mauricie region. The seat is in Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes. It is located adjacent on the east of Trois-Rivières on the Saint Lawrence River. It has a land area of 872.04 square kilometres (336.70 sq mi) and a population of 17,865 inhabitants in the Canada 2011 Census. Its largest community is the parish of Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel.
Les Chenaux is one of the few regional county municipalities in Quebec that does not constitute its own census division; instead, it is grouped with Trois-Rivières as the single census division of Francheville.