Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier (Le tour des ponts)

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Distance: 12.05 mi
Elevation gain: 659 ft
Technical difficulty: Easy
Elevation loss: 659 ft
Max elevation: 821 ft
TrailRank: 29
Min elevation: 543 ft
Trail type: Loop

Time: one hour 26 minutes
Coordinates: 209
Uploaded: November 19, 2013
Recorded: August 2013

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near Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec (Canada)

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Itinerary description

The Jacques-Cartier River is a river in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is 161 km long and its source is Jacques-Cartier Lake in Laurentides Wildlife Reserve, and flows in a predominantly southern direction before ending in the Saint Lawrence River at Donnacona, about 30 km upstream from Quebec City.

It is currently under nomination for Canadian Heritage River status.

he area covered by the drainage basin is for the most part undeveloped or protected, especially its source. In fact, 77% of its length is protected by the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve and the Jacques-Cartier National Park where one finds a steep glaciated valley formed during the last glaciation. Nevertheless, about 25000 people live on the shores of this river close to its mouth, where it crosses the regional municipality of Portneuf and the municipalities of Tewkesbury, Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Shannon, Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier, Pont-Rouge and Donnacona.

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