Rivière des Îles Brûlées | |
Pushpin Map: | Quebec |
Subdivision Type1: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | Canada |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Quebec |
Subdivision Type3: | Administrative region |
Subdivision Name3: | Chaudière-Appalaches |
Subdivision Type4: | RCM |
Subdivision Name4: | La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality |
Source1: | Agricultural streams |
Source1 Location: | Saint-Bernard |
Mouth: | Chaudière River |
Mouth Location: | Saint-Bernard |
Progression: | Chaudière River, St. Lawrence |
Tributaries Left: | (upstream) cours d'eau Bougie |
Tributaries Right: | (upstream) Cours d'eau Garon |
The Rivière des Îles Brûlées (in English: river of burned islands) is a tributary of the west shore of the Chaudière River which flows northward to empty onto the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. It flows in the municipality of Saint-Bernard, in the La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality (MRC), in the administrative region of Chaudière-Appalaches, in Quebec, in Canada.
The main neighboring watersheds of the Brûlées River are:
The Rivière des Îles Brûlées has its source in an agricultural zone northwest of the route du rang Saint-Henri, in the municipality of Saint-Bernard. This headland is located at southwest of the center of the village of Saint-Bernard, at west of the Chaudière River and east of the center of the village of Saint-Patrice-de-Beaurivage.
From its source, the Îles Brûlées river "flows over divided into the following segments:
The Îles Brûlées river flows on the west bank of the Chaudière River, in Saint-Bernard. This confluence is located downstream of the bridge in the village of Scott and upstream of the Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon bridge.
The toponym Rivière des Îles Brûlées was formalized on August 8, 1977, at the Commission de toponymie du Québec.[2]