page_title: Puvirnituq
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Puvirnituq / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: Iguarsivik School in Puvirnituq Français&#160;: École Iguarsivik Polski: Szkoła w Puvirnituq
context_page_description: Puvirnituq is a northern village in Nunavik, Inuit Nunangat on the Povungnituk River near its mouth on Hudson Bay in northern Quebec, Canada. Its population was 1,779 as of the Canada 2016 Census.
  Unlike most other northern villages in Nunavik, it has no Inuit reserved land of the same name associated with it.
  The name means "Place where there is a smell of rotten meat". This unusual name may have originated from either one of these events:
  A herd of caribou was swept away by the Povungnituk River while attempting to cross it and washed ashore near the current village site where the decomposing bodies began giving off a staunch smell.
  An epidemic killed off most of the area's residents to the point where there were not enough people to bury the dead, allowing the exposed bodies to decompose, giving off a putrid smell.
  Puvirnituq is the aviation hub of the Hudson Bay coast. Puvirnituq Airport handles scheduled flights to and from all other Hudson Bay coastal communities in Quebec, Montreal, and Ottawa. It is not accessible by road.
  The police services in Puvirnituq are provided by the Kativik Regional Police Force.
context_section_description: The Kativik School Board operates the Iguarsivik School.
caption: Iguarsivik School - School in Puvirnituq
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