Portneuf Regional County Municipality

Portneuf
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 46°53′N71°55′W / 46.883°N 71.917°W / 46.883; -71.917 Coordinates: 46°53′N71°55′W / 46.883°N 71.917°W / 46.883; -71.917 [1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Capitale-Nationale
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Cap-Santé
Municipalities	List Cap-Santé Saint-Raymond Donnacona Pont-Rouge Neuville Saint-Marc-des-Carrières Deschambault-Grondines Portneuf Saint-Basile Saint-Léonard Lac-Sergent Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne Rivière-à-Pierre Saint-Gilbert Saint-Alban Saint-Casimir Saint-Thuribe Saint-Ubalde
Government [2]
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Denis Langlois
Area [2] [3]
• Total	4,125.10 km2 (1,592.71 sq mi)
• Land	3,923.70 km2 (1,514.95 sq mi)
Population  (2016) [3]
• Total	53,008
• Density	13.5/km2 (35/sq mi)
• Change 2011-2016	7.4%
• Dwellings	26,586
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Website	www.portneuf.com
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Portneuf is a regional county municipality (RCM) in the Capitale-Nationale administrative region of Quebec, Canada. RCM of Portneuf has been established on January 1, 1982. It is composed of 21 municipalities: nine cities, seven municipalities, two parishes and three unorganized territories. The county seat is located in Cap-Santé.

History

The Regional County Municipality of Portneuf was constituted as a regional administrative entity on November 25, 1981, by a Provincial decree creating the supralocal Regional County Municipality administration based on the (...) and therefore replacing the previously existing historic Portneuf County Corporation. While the new administrative boundary included most of the communities from its previous historic limits, a few municipalities were merged with bordering entities: St-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Sainte-Catherine-de-Portneuf, Notre-Dame-de-Montauban, Quebec. Those municipalities yet remained within the Electoral Federal Riding of Portneuf District (all but Notre-Dame-de-Mautauban).

The administrative county seat remained in Cap-Santé while moving from the County Corporation building to a newly built one located further east on 185, Route 138 at a slight distance from the historic village of Cap-Santé.

Subdivisions

There are 21 subdivisions within the RCM: ^[2]

Cities & Towns (9) Cap-Santé Donnacona Lac-Sergent Neuville Pont-Rouge Portneuf Saint-Basile Saint-Marc-des-Carrières Saint-Raymond

Municipalities (7) Deschambault-Grondines Rivière-à-Pierre Saint-Alban Saint-Casimir Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne Saint-Léonard-de-Portneuf Saint-Ubalde

Parishes (2) Saint-Gilbert Saint-Thuribe

Unorganized Territory (3) Lac-Blanc Lac-Lapeyrère Linton

Transportation

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border: ^[5]

Autoroutes A-40

Principal Highways Route 138

Secondary Highways Route 354 Route 358 Route 363 Route 365 Route 367

External Routes None

See also

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec
• Portneuf County, Quebec

References

1. Reference number 141045 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (in French)
2. Geographic code 340 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (in French)
3. "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Portneuf, Municipalité régionale de comté [Census division], Quebec". Statistics Canada. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
4. Statistics Canada (March 10, 2009). "2011 Community profiles - MRC de Portneuf" . Retrieved 2009-04-15.
5. Official Transport Quebec Road Map