The Batiscan river is a located in La Mauricie administrative region, in the Quebec province, Canada. This river flows 196 km from Lake Édouard (Haute-Mauricie) in Mauricie south to empty into the St. Lawrence River at Batiscan, at the northeast of Trois-Rivières. Its journey pass through the Regional County Municipality (RCM) (MRC in French) of La Tuque, Portneuf, Mékinac and Chenaux. The river traverses a territory covered mainly by forest from its source to the St. Adelphe Railway bridge; the rest of his course is predominantly agricultural. The Batiscan river Valley is designated "Batiscanie". Today, this valley is a paradise for camping, vacationing, observations of nature and water activities such as canoeing, kayaking, rafting, pontoon and swimming in designated areas. Batiscan river is a popular Canadian whitewater kayaking destination, providing numerous class III, IV, and V rapids.
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“Every incident connected with the breaking up of the rivers and ponds and the settling of the weather is particularly interesting to us who live in a climate of so great extremes. When the warmer days come, they who dwell near the river hear the ice crack at night with a startling whoop as loud as artillery, as if its icy fetters were rent from end to end, and within a few days see it rapidly going out. So the alligator comes out of the mud with quakings of the earth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)