page_title: Minganie Regional County Municipality
section_title: River basins
hierarchical_section_title: Minganie Regional County Municipality / River basins
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Chute sur la rivière Manitou, Minganie, Québec, Canada Français&#160;: Falls on Manitou river, Minganie Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada
context_page_description: Minganie is a regional county municipality in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. It includes Anticosti Island. Its seat is Havre-Saint-Pierre.
  It has an area of 73,725.10 square kilometres according to Quebec's Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire, or a land area of 56,116.77 square kilometres according to Statistics Canada. The population from the Canada 2011 Census was 6,582 and in 2016 it was 11,323. The majority live in Havre-Saint-Pierre.
  Minganie and the neighbouring Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality are grouped into the single census division of Minganie—Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent. The combined population at the Canada 2011 Census was 11,708.
  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 Petit-Mécatina unorganized territory was transferred to the newly created Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, which superseded Basse-Côte-Nord.
context_section_description: 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:
caption: Falls on the Manitou River
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