| Écartée River | |
| Name Other: | Rivière Écartée |
| Pushpin Map: | Quebec |
| Subdivision Type1: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type2: | Province |
| Subdivision Name2: | Quebec |
| Subdivision Type3: | Region |
| Subdivision Name3: | Capitale-Nationale |
| Subdivision Type4: | Regional County Municipality |
| Subdivision Name4: | Portneuf Regional County Municipality |
| Subdivision Type5: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name5: | Saint-Raymond |
| Length: | 3.2km (02miles) |
| Source1: | Unidentified Lake |
| Source1 Location: | Saint-Raymond |
| Source1 Coordinates: | 47.0192°N -71.8054°W |
| Source1 Elevation: | 390m (1,280feet) |
| Mouth: | Bras du Nord |
| Mouth Location: | Saint-Raymond |
| Mouth Coordinates: | 47.0125°N -71.8419°W |
| Mouth Elevation: | 184m (604feet) |
| Tributaries Left: | (Upward from the mouth) discharge from an unidentified small lake. |
| Tributaries Right: | (Upward from the mouth) discharge from an unidentified small lake, discharge from five unidentified small lakes. |
The Rivière Écartée (English: Spread River) is a tributary of the Bras du Nord, flowing in the territory of the municipality of Saint-Raymond, in the Portneuf Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Capitale-Nationale, in Quebec, Canada.
The lower part of the Écartée river valley is mainly served by the rang Saguenay road which first goes north and branches west to serve the north shore of the Bras du Nord including the hamlet Pine Lake. Another secondary forest road goes up this small valley.
Forestry is the main economic activity in this sector; recreotourism activities, second.
The Spread area (except rapids) is generally frozen from early December to late March, but safe movement on the ice is generally from late December to early March. The water level of the river varies with the seasons and the precipitation; the spring flood occurs in March or April.
The main hydrographic slopes neighboring the Écartée river are:
The Écartée river takes its source from a small unidentified forest lake (length: ; altitude:). This mouth of the lake is located northwest of the mouth of the Écartée river; north of the mouth of the Bras du Nord; north of the mouth of the Sainte-Anne River.
The Écartée river flows for to the southwest by rolling down a mountainside in the municipality of Saint-Raymond, with a drop in level of . This watercourse descends entirely in a small valley in a forest environment according to the following segments:
It flows upstream from a bend in the Bras du Nord, ie west of the Verte River and west of the Sainte-Anne River.[1]
From this confluence, the current descends the course of the Bras du Nord on to the south, then follows the course of the Sainte-Anne river on generally south-west, to the north-west bank of the St. Lawrence River.[1]
The toponym "Rivière Écartée" was registered on December 5, 1968 at the Place Names Bank of the Commission de toponymie du Québec.[2]