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Location The massif roughly covers the entire region of
Capitale-Nationale (with the exception of the banks of the
St. Lawrence River) as well as the extreme south of the region of
Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean.
Topography The Jacques-Cartier Lake massif is one of the geographical features of the
Laurentian Mountains. With the Valin Mountains, its altitude exceeds by several hundred meters the rest of the peaks of the chain. The presence of hundreds of lakes and a few glacial valleys (such as the
Jacques-Cartier River valley) represents another distinctive facet of the massif. The main peaks are: •
Mount Raoul Blanchard (); •
Mount Belle Fontaine (); •
Mont de la Québécoise (); •
Mont François-De Laval (); •
Mont Jean-Hubert (); •
Montagne des Érables (); •
Mont Élie (); •
Mont Francine-C.-McKenzie (); •
Mont du Lac des Cygnes (); •
Mont du Dôme (); •
Mont du Lac à Moïse (); •
Mount Apica (); •
Mountain in Liguori (). This list is incomplete and in several sectors of the territory the altitude exceeds without having a physiognomy of mount. In addition, not all high peaks have been officially named as a mountain.
Ecosystem are abundant. The massif has an ecosystem
boreal that cannot be found elsewhere at this
latitude in
Quebec. Being part of the domain of white birch fir (sector 5ef), the most common tree species is
black spruce. The massif is home to one of the last herds of
forest caribou in southern Quebec, the
Charlevoix herd. == History ==