| La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau | |
| Settlement Type: | Regional county municipality |
| Coordinates: | 46.5333°N -79°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Quebec |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Outaouais |
| Established Title: | Effective |
| Established Date: | January 1, 1983 |
| Seat Type: | County seat |
| Seat: | Gracefield |
| Government Type: | Prefecture |
| Leader Title: | Prefect |
| Leader Name: | Chantal Lamarche |
| Area Total Km2: | 13,931.50 |
| Area Land Km2: | 12,480.50 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 20,182 |
| Population As Of: | 2016 |
| Population Density Km2: | 1.6 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2011-2016 |
| Population Blank1: | 1.7% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 15,363 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −05:00 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −04:00 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Area Code: | 819 |
La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau (in French pronounced as /la vale də la ɡatino/, The Valley of the Gatineau) is a regional county municipality in the Outaouais region of western Quebec, Canada. The seat is in Gracefield. It was incorporated on January 1, 1983 and was named for its location straddling the Gatineau River north of Low.
It consists of two cities, fifteen municipalities, and five unorganized territories. The area also has two Algonquin communities, Rapid Lake in the heart of the La Vérendrye Wildlife Reserve and Kitigan Zibi.
The territory of the Gatineau Valley is bordered by other Outaouais RCMs: to the east by the Antoine-Labelle Regional County Municipality, to the southeast by Papineau RCM, to the south by the Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais RCM and to the west by the Pontiac Regional County Municipality. To the north is La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region. Numerous lakes abound in area, including everything from the small Lac des Pins [2] to 31 Mile Lake.[3]
The administrative centre for La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau is north of Kitigan Zibi in Maniwaki, previously the county seat of historic Gatineau County.
There are 22 subdivisions within the RCM:
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[4]