Lac à Mars


The lac à Mars is a fresh body of water in the watershed of the rivière à Mars North-West, the rivière à Mars and the Saguenay River. This body of water is located in the unorganized territory of Lac-Pikauba, in the Charlevoix Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. Lac à Mars is located in the central eastern part of the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve.
Upstream of the port, industrial and urban area, the rivière à Mars valley is mainly served by the Consol Paper road. The rivière à Mars North-West is served by a few other secondary forest roads for forestry and recreational tourism activities.
Forestry is the main economic activity in the sector; recreational tourism, second.
The surface of the lac à March 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

The mouth of Lac à Mars is located about northeast of the boundary of the administrative regions of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean and Capitale-Nationale. The main watersheds near Lake Mars are:
Lac à Mars has a length of in the shape of a woman's head seen in semi-profile, a maximum width of, an altitude is and an area of. This lake has a narrow bay stretching to the east. It also has a narrowing to in its southern part. A peninsula attached to the eastern shore stretching on in the shape of a hook causes another narrowing in the northern part of the lake. The mouth of this lake is located at the bottom of a bay on the north shore, at:
From the confluence of the lac à Mars, the current descends the course of:
The place names “Rivière à Mars”, “Rivière à Mars Nord-Ouest” and “Lac à Mars” have the same origin.
The toponym "lac à Mars" was formalized on December 5, 1968, by the Commission de toponymie du Québec.

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