Montmagny is northwest of the Notre Dame Mountains, more commonly but unofficially called the Canadian extension of the
Green Mountains as they are called in New England. While
Mont Notre Dame is the official name, the vast majority of people living in the area stretching from Quebec City to the Gaspé Peninsula refer to them as simply "the Appalachians" (French:
les Appalaches), the origin of the official designation of the region comprising Quebec City's South Shore suburbia to the US border to the east and the northeast, which is known as
Chaudière-Appalaches, after the mountains and the main river flowing down from them into the St. Lawrence River. The city of Montmagny itself is divided by the South River (French:
Rivière du Sud), where a smaller river, Bras-Saint-Nicolas, merges into it. The confluence of waters swells into a set of falls, leading to discharge into the Saint-Lawrence a short distance west of the city. Montmagny is the seat of the
judicial district of Montmagny. Researchers have studied the
intertidal marshes of the
St. Lawrence estuary at Montmagny.
Climate == History ==