| La Matapédia | |
| Flag Size: | 150px |
| Coordinates: | 48.3°N -101°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Established Title: | Effective |
| Established Date: | January 1, 1982 |
| Seat Type: | County seat |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] |
| Leader Title: | Prefect |
| Leader Name: | Chantale Lavoie |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name3: | Kristina Michaud (BQ) |
| Leader Name4: | Pascal Bérubé (PQ) |
| Area Footnotes: | [2] |
| Area Total Km2: | 5,389.00 |
| Area Land Km2: | 5,374.57 |
| Population Footnotes: | [3] |
| Population Total: | 17,592 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 3.3 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2016-2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 1.9% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 9,274 |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
La Matapédia is a regional county municipality (RCM) in eastern Quebec, Canada at the base of the Gaspé peninsula, in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region. Its seat is in Amqui. It is named after the Matapédia River which runs through the western part of the RCM.
La Matapédia was created on January 1, 1982, succeeding from the former Matapédia County Municipality. The region was subject to one of the last waves of colonization in Quebec, settled mostly by people from the Lower Saint-Lawrence between 1850 and 1950. It is a rural region in the Matapedia Valley crossed by the Notre Dame Mountains. Agriculture and logging, and its related industries (forestry and wood products), are the main economic activities.[4]
There are 25 subdivisions within the RCM:[1]
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - La Matapédia Regional County Municipality, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 17,635 | 3.2% | 99.13% | 70 | 6.7% | 0.39% | 35 | 16.7% | 0.20% | 50 | 100.0% | 0.28% | ||||||||
| 18,215 | 2.4% | 99.29% | 75 | 36.4% | 0.41% | 30 | 200.0% | 0.16% | 25 | 68.8% | 0.14% | ||||||||
| 18,665 | 3.4% | 99.23% | 55 | 57.1% | 0.29% | 10 | 75.0% | 0.05% | 80 | 700.0% | 0.43% | ||||||||
| 19,320 | 4.7% | 99.56% | 35 | 41.7% | 0.18% | 40 | 42.9% | 0.21% | 10 | 60.0% | 0.05% | ||||||||
| 20,280 | n/a | 99.24% | 60 | n/a | 0.29% | 70 | n/a | 0.34% | 25 | n/a | 0.12% | ||||||||
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[5]