Lac de la Belle Rivière


The lac de la Belle Rivière is a freshwater body at the head of Belle Rivière on the watershed of lac Saint-Jean, in the unorganized territory of Belle-Rivière, in the Lac-Saint-Jean-Est Regional County Municipality, in the region Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, in the province of Quebec, in Canada.
Lake Belle Rivière is located in the northwestern part of the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve.
This small valley is served by the route 169 and by the route des Laurentides which runs along the lake on the northeast side. A few secondary roads serve this area for the needs of forestry, recreational tourism activities.
Forestry is the main economic activity in the sector; recreational tourism, second.
The surface of Belle Rivière Lake is usually frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March, however the safe circulation on the ice is generally from mid-December to mid-March.

Geography

The main watersheds adjacent to Lake Belle Rivière are:
The Belle Rivière lake has a length of, a width of and an altitude of. This lake has three parts formed by two narrows.
This lake is mainly fed by the rivière du Milieu and by the outlet of the big lake of Cedars. The mouth of this lake is located to the west, at the Laurentian Highway bridge, at:
From the mouth of Belle Rivière lake, the current follows the course of the Belle Rivière consecutively on northwesterly to the east shore of Lac Saint-Jean; from there, the current goes north on crossing this last lake, follows the course of the Saguenay river via the Petite Décharge on until Tadoussac where it merges with the Saint Lawrence estuary.

Toponymy

The name "Belle Rivière" is linked to the river, a stream and the municipality of the same name in the same sector.
The toponym Lac de la Belle Rivière was formalized on December 5, 1968, by the Commission de toponymie du Québec.

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