| Maskinongé | |
| Settlement Type: | Regional county municipality |
| Coordinates: | 46.3167°N -128°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Mauricie |
| Established Title: | Effective |
| Established Date: | January 1, 1982 |
| Seat Type: | County seat |
| Seat: | Louiseville |
| Government Type: | Prefecture |
| Leader Title: | Prefect |
| Leader Name: | Robert Lalonde |
| Area Total Km2: | 2,502.40 |
| Area Land Km2: | 2,384.76 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 36,316 |
| Population As Of: | 2016 |
| Population Density Km2: | 15.2 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2011-2016 |
| Population Blank1: | 0.1% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 19,075 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Area Code: | 819 |
Maskinongé is a regional county municipality in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is Louiseville. It is located adjacent on the west of Trois-Rivières on the Saint Lawrence River.
The population according to the 2016 Canadian Census was 36,316, an increase of 0.1% over the 2011 population.[1]
The RCM was formed on January 1, 1982, and it consisted of Hunterstown Township (now part of Saint-Paulin); Belleau Municipality (now part of Saint-Alexis-des-Monts); the parish municipalities of Saint-Alexis-des-Monts, Sainte-Angèle (since renamed to Sainte-Angèle-de-Premont), Sainte-Anne-d'Yamachiche (now part of Yamachiche), Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup (now part of Louiseville), Saint-Barnabé, Saint-Édouard (since renamed to Saint-Édouard-de-Maskinongé), Saint-Joseph-de-Maskinongé (now part of Maskinongé), Saint-Justin, Saint-Léon-le-Grand, Saint-Paulin, Saint-Sévère, and Sainte-Ursule; and the village municipalities of Louiseville, Maskinongé, Saint-Paulin, and Yamachiche.
On January 1, 2002, the municipalities of Charette, Saint-Boniface-de-Shawinigan (since renamed to Saint-Boniface), Saint-Élie (since renamed to Saint-Élie-de-Caxton), Saint-Étienne-des-Grès, and Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc were transferred to the Maskinongé Regional County Municipality when the Centre-de-la-Mauricie and Francheville Regional Counties were dissolved.
There are 17 subdivisions within the RCM:
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[2]