La Belle Rivière (Lac Saint-Jean)


The Belle Rivière is a tributary of Lac Saint-Jean, flowing the unorganized territory of Belle-Rivière and in the municipalities of Hébertville and Saint-Gédéon, in the Lac-Saint-Jean-Est Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, in Quebec, Canada.
The Belle Rivière valley is served by route 169, chemin du 3e rang, chemin du 2e rang, chemin du rang Caron, route des Savard, chemin du rang de la Belle-Rivière and chemin du rang Sainte-Anne. This valley is also served by some secondary forest roads, especially for forestry and recreational tourism activities.
Forestry and agriculture are the main economic activities in this valley; recreational tourism, second.
The surface of the Belle Rivière is usually frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March, however the safe circulation on the ice is generally made from mid-December to mid-March.

Geography

Taking its source from Lac de la Belle Rivière, this river is long. This river empties into Lac Saint-Jean at Saint-Gédéon.
The main watersheds neighboring the Belle Rivière are:
The La Belle Rivière rises at Lac de la Belle Rivière in the forest area. This source is located at:
From its source, the Belle Rivière flows over with a drop of entirely in the forest and agricultural zone, according to the following segments:
La Belle Rivière pours into the bottom of a bay on the eastern shore of lac Saint-Jean. This confluence is located at:
From the mouth of La Belle Rivière on the east shore of lac Saint-Jean, the current goes north on crossing this last lake, follows the course of the Saguenay River via La Petite Décharge on until Tadoussac where it merges with the Saint Lawrence estuary.

Toponymy

Its name comes from the montagnais "Mirochip8" which means "beautiful river".
It has also previously been known as the Couchepagane River Kushpahigan or.
The toponym "La Belle Rivière" was formalized on December 5, 1968, at the Place Names Bank of the Commission de toponymie du Québec.