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Port Joli River

Coordinates: 47°10′34″N 70°18′19″W / 47.17611°N 70.30527°W / 47.17611; -70.30527
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Port Joli River
Port Joli River is located in Quebec
Port Joli River
Native nameRivière Port Joli (French)
Location
CountryCanada
ProvinceQuebec
RegionChaudière-Appalaches
MRCL'Islet Regional County Municipality
Physical characteristics
SourceForest streams
 • locationSaint-Damase-de-L'Islet
 • coordinates47°13′31″N 70°06′31″W / 47.225337°N 70.108616°W / 47.225337; -70.108616
 • elevation258 metres (846 ft)
MouthSt. Lawrence River
 • location
Saint-Jean-Port-Joli
 • coordinates
47°10′34″N 70°18′19″W / 47.17611°N 70.30527°W / 47.17611; -70.30527
 • elevation
4 metres (13 ft)
Length18.6 kilometres (11.6 mi)
Basin features
Tributaries 
 • left(upstream) Pinguet River
 • right(upstream)

The Port Joli River (in French: rivière Port Joli) is a tributary of the south shore of the St. Lawrence River where it flows southwest of the village of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli and north-east of the village of L'Islet-sur-Mer.

The Port Joli river flows through the municipalities of Saint-Damase-de-L'Islet, Sainte-Louise and Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, in the L'Islet Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Chaudière-Appalaches, in Quebec, in Canada.

Geography

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The Port Joli river takes its source from agricultural streams, located in the municipality of Saint-Damase-de-L'Islet. This spring is located at 9.7 kilometres (6.0 mi) southeast of the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, at 12.1 kilometres (7.5 mi) east of the center of the village of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli and 10.8 kilometres (6.7 mi) south of the center of the village of Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies. Trois Saumons Lake flows through its northeast end.[1]

From its source, the Port Joli River flows over 18.6 kilometres (11.6 mi), divided into the following segments:

At the end of its course, the Trois Saumons river flows onto the long shore (at low tide) in Anse Port Joli, on the south shore of the middle St. Lawrence estuary. This confluence is located 3.4 kilometres (2.1 mi) north-east of the village of L'Islet-sur-Mer and 4.6 kilometres (2.9 mi) to the south-west of the village of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli.[1]

Toponymy

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The toponym Rivière Port Joli was formalized on December 2, 1975, at the Commission de toponymie du Québec.[2]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Atlas of Canada from the Department of Natural Resources Canada – Characteristics extracted from the geographic map, database and site instrumentation". Retrieved 2021-01-09.
  2. ^ Commission de toponymie du Québec - Rivière Port Joli.