| Ouelle River | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| Region | Chaudière-Appalaches, Bas-Saint-Laurent |
| MRC | L'Islet Regional County Municipality, Kamouraska Regional County Municipality |
| Municipality | Saint-Pacôme, Rivière-Ouelle |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Mountain stream |
| • location | Tourville |
| • coordinates | 47°01′55″N 70°06′41″W / 47.03194°N 70.11139°W |
| • elevation | 345 metres (1,132 ft) |
| Mouth | St. Lawrence River |
• location | Rivière-Ouelle |
• coordinates | 47°25′31″N 70°02′50″W / 47.42528°N 70.04722°W |
• elevation | 3 metres (9.8 ft) |
| Length | 734 kilometres (456 mi) |
| Basin size | 860 kilometres (534.38 mi) |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | (upstream) cours d'eau Bouchard, Damnée River, cours d'eau Joncas, Bras de la rivière Ouelle, ruisseau Charlemagne. |
| • right | (upstream) cours d'eau du Cimetière, ruisseau de la Plaine, cours d'eau Lévesque, ruisseau Drapeau, décharge du lac Dargis, ruisseau du Fronteau, cours d'eau Joseph-Ouellet, La Grande Rivière, cours d'eau Paradis, cours d'eau Gérard-Lévesque. |
The Ouelle River (in French: rivière Ouelle) is a tributary of the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. This river flows successively in the MRC of:
- L'Islet Regional County Municipality (administrative region of Chaudière-Appalaches): municipalities of Sainte-Perpétue, Tourville and Saint-Damase-de-L'Islet;
- Kamouraska Regional County Municipality (administrative region of Bas-Saint-Laurent): municipalities of Saint-Onésime-d'Ixworth, Saint-Gabriel-Lalemant, Saint-Pacôme and Rivière-Ouelle.
The Ouelle River flows through the towns of Saint-Pacôme and Rivière-Ouelle in Québec and enters the Saint Lawrence River to the west of Rivière-Ouelle. There are waterfalls (French: Chutes de la Riviere Ouelle) close to the village of Saint-Gabriel-de-Kamouraska.
The main shock epicentre of the Charlevoix earthquake of 1663 is believed to have occurred along the Saint Lawrence River between the mouth of the Malbaie River on the north and the mouth of the Ouelle on the south.[1]