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Grandes-Piles is a village municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada. == Geography == Located in Radnor Township, this small village is located on a cliff at north of Grand-Mère, overlooking the Saint-Maurice River on the east bank. The village faces the village of Saint-Jean-des-Piles. Once annually ice bridge connecting the two villages were built from December to March. The northwestern part of the municipality faces the La Mauricie National Park, located on the west bank of the Saint-Maurice River. This town was the birthplace of the floating timber in Mauricie, which stopped in 1996 after 150 years. Grandes-Piles proved to be a historic landmark in the forestry industry. Since 1996, the reopening of the waterway free of foating logs, the Saint-Maurice River offers to boaters a large choice for water sports and a paradise for sailing. In winter, the frozen river and snowy cliffs and forest become a huge area for winter sports. Boating is generally done well between the dam of Grand-Mère and the dam of La Tuque, especially when the water is high. File:Cruisepiles.jpg The lakes of the municipal flow into one of the three following rivers: * Saint-Maurice River: creek of islands (water coming from the "Lac des Îles"), creek of Jacob (from lakes Cordon and Doris), creek Marcouiller (from Lake Marcouiller) and creek Denoncourt (draining the lake Laing, and the zone at north of the village); * Little Mékinac North River: emissary of Lake Roberge (Grandes-Piles) and draining water from the territory at north of Sainte-Thècle and Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac and Grandes-Piles, including Clair Lake; * Little Mékinac South River: whose head water lakes in Grandes-Piles are in mountainous regions: Gabriel Lake, Beaver Lake, Lake Trout, Gagnon Lake, Caribou Lake, Lake of the bottle, and the two lakes Jean-Baptiste. This river flows through the Tavibois center which is arranged on the boundary between the territory of Grandes-Piles and Hérouxville. Then this river quenches the "creek Rouille" before heading north-east to join the Little Mékinac North River in Saint-Tite. The summit of the mountain between Gabriel lake and Marcouiller lake is located just two kilometers from the Saint-Maurice River. It is the same case for the mountain between creek Jacob and Marcouiller lake. The line of the watershed between the Saint-Maurice River and Batiscan River pass through these summits. Thus, despite its proximity to the Saint-Maurice River, much of the territory of Grandes-Piles is part of the watershed of the Batiscanie. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grandes-Piles, Quebec」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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