Petit Saguenay River

Petit Saguenay River
Location
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Capitale-Nationale and Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean
Regional County Municipality	Charlevoix-Est Regional County Municipality and Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality
Municipalities	Sagard and Petit-Saguenay
Physical characteristics
Source	Troisième lac des Marais
• location	Sagard
• coordinates	47°52′46″N 70°14′58″W / 47.879379°N 70.249355°W / 47.879379; -70.249355
• elevation	608 m (1,995 ft)
Mouth	Saguenay River
• location	Petit-Saguenay
• coordinates	48°14′04″N 70°06′01″W / 48.23444°N 70.10028°W / 48.23444; -70.10028
• elevation	3 m (9.8 ft)
Length	84.8 km (52.7 mi)[1]
Discharge
• location	Petit-Saguenay
Basin features
Tributaries
• left	(from the mouth) Outlet of Lac du Camp, outlet of lac des Feuilles, Cabanage River, Portage River (Petit-Saguenay River tributary), ruisseau Dallaire, ruisseau à l'Eau Froide, outlet of lac Brossard, outlet of lac Cast, outlet of lac Germaine, outlet of a set of lakes such Mailloux, Crochu, "de la Gosse" and à Ti-Jos, outlet of lac Aimé and "des Harvey", outlet of "Lac à Jacinthe" (via "lac Emmuraillé"), ruisseau Pilote (via le lac Pilote et Emmuraillé), lac Armand (via "Lac au Bouleau"), ruisseau Bazile (via "Lac au Sable"), ruisseau au Sable (via "Lac au Sable"), outlet of Petit lac au Sable, outlet of Lac Pierrot.
• right	(from the mouth) Outlet of Lac à Léon, cours d'eau Simard, outlet of lac Tom, outlet of Lac de l'Oeuf, outlet of Lac à David et du lac Luc, rivière Deschênes, outlet of lacs Croche, Noir and "à la Bombe", outlet of lac du Chicot and lac Onésime, outlet of Lac des Abeilles (via le Lac au Sable).

The Petit Saguenay River is a watercourse flowing in Quebec, Canada, in:

• the unorganized territory of Sagard, Charlevoix-Est Regional County Municipality, in administrative region of Capitale-Nationale;
• the municipality of Petit-Saguenay, in the Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean.

This river has the status of "salmon river"; the course of the river is administered by the zec de la Rivière-Petit-Saguenay which supervises 24 salmon pits and a non-quota zone.^[2] A lower segment (near the Saguenay River) is administered by the Saguenay Fjord National Park and the zec de l'Anse-Saint-Jean.

The lower part of this river is served by Quai Street (West Bank) from the mouth, rue Tremblay and rue Eugène-Morin. The route 170 passes on the east bank between the village of Petit-Saguenay and the confluence of the Deschênes River. The intermediate section is served by Lac Victor Road and Ovila-Lavoie Road. The upper part is served by various secondary forest roads.

Forestry is the first economic activity in the sector; recreational tourism activities, second.

The surface of the Petit Saguenay River is usually frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March, however, safe ice circulation is generally from mid-December to mid-March.