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L'Assomption River : ウィキペディア英語版 | L'Assomption River
The Assomption River (in French ''Rivière l'Assomption'', named after the Assumption of Mary) is the most important waterway in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada, is over long, and has a drainage basin of . Its source is the Mont Tremblant massif. Seven significant rivers flow into the Assomption (de la Boule, Versailles, Noire, la Chaloupe, Ouareau, Saint-Esprit, and Achigan) before it flows into the Rivière des Prairies at Repentigny, Quebec. About 150,000 people live in the drainage area of this river. ==Geography== The L'Assomption River watershed overlaps two natural environments, the Laurentian Mountains and the St-Lawrence lowlands, which cover about a third of the watershed area. Its relief is a uniform plain with some hills—from —dominated by agricultural lands. The texture of the soil is rather fine and rests on an impermeable argillaceous (clay) base. The Laurentian Mountains form part of the Canadian Shield. They are separated from the lowlands by a well defined escarpment that rises about . This escarpment has many waterfalls. The Laurentians Mountains have an average height of in the south and in the north. And there are even mountains of over in the Mont Tremblant massif where the L'Assomption River forms.
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