It has an area of 73,725.10 square kilometres (28,465.42sqmi) according to Quebec's Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire (which includes coastal, lake, and river water territory and also disputed land within Labrador), or a land area of 56,116.77 square kilometres (21,666.81sqmi) according to Statistics Canada. The population from the Canada 2011 Census was 6,582[4] and in 2016 it was 11,323.[5] The majority live in Havre-Saint-Pierre.[2]
Until 2002, Minganie RCM encompassed the entire lower north shore right up to Blanc-Sablon. In 2002, it lost all the coastal communities east of the Natashquan River when the Basse-Côte-Nord Territory was formed. In July 2010, the RCM lost another 44% of its territory when the (uninhabited) Petit-Mécatina unorganized territory was transferred to the newly created Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, which superseded Basse-Côte-Nord.[6]
Subdivisions
There are 9 subdivisions and 2 native reserves within the RCM:[2]
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[7]
Autoroutes
None
Principal Highways
Route 138
Secondary Highways
None
External Routes
None
River basins
There are a number of large rivers that flow in a generally north-south direction through Minganie to enter the Gulf. Near the coast the river basins tend to narrow in towards the river mouth, and between their mouths are areas that drain into the Gulf through smaller streams. From west to east, the larger river basins, which may cover parts of Labrador, Sept-Rivières or Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent, are:[8]
Audrée Soucy (July 2010), "Municipalité régionale de comté (MRC)"(PDF), Modifications aux municipalités du Québec, Quebec: Institut de la statistique du Québec, ISSN1715-6408, archived from the original(PDF) on 2011-06-12, retrieved 2010-09-17
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