page_title: Grands-Jardins National Park
section_title: Hydrography
hierarchical_section_title: Grands-Jardins National Park / Geography / Hydrography
caption_attribution_description: Parc national des Grands-Jardins, Canada
context_page_description: Grands-Jardins National Park is a provincial park, located in the Unorganized Territory of Lac-Pikauba, in the Charlevoix Regional County Municipality, an administrative region of Capitale-Nationale, in Quebec, Canada.
  The Grands-Jardins National Park is a protected area for the conservation of the natural heritage of the Charlevoix region in which certain human activities are permitted. It is one of the central areas of the Charlevoix World Biosphere Reserve, status granted by the UNESCO in 1988, just seven years after the park was created. The park is managed by the Quebec government thanks to the Société des établissements de plein air du Québec.
  This Charlevoix park covers an area of 318.9 kilometres accessible by Saint-Urbain in the region of Capitale-Nationale. The closest town to the park is Baie-Saint-Paul.
context_section_description: The park includes more than 120 bodies of water as well as several mountains that are part of the mountain range of Laurentian Mountains. The summits of these mountains are protected because of the fragility of the ecosystems present at the summits which are sensitive to the trampling of hikers. These summits are still accessible to hikers by marked and landscaped trails. The water bodies make up 3.6% of the park area and the two most important watersheds are the Malbaie River and the Sainte-Anne-du-Nord River.
caption: Lac des Cygnes
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