L'Érable Regional County Municipality

L'Érable (French pronunciation: [leʁabl], Maple) is a regional county municipality in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, Canada. Named for its maple trees, the area is rural in nature and is located 50 km southwest of Quebec City. Its seat is Plessisville.

L'Érable
Regional county municipality
Location in province of Quebec.
Coordinates: 46°15′N 71°45′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Centre-du-Québec
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Plessisville
Government [2]
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Sylvain Labrecque
Area [2][3]
• Total	1,300.70 km2 (502.20 sq mi)
• Land	1,287.86 km2 (497.25 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[3]
• Total	23,425
• Density	18.2/km2 (47/sq mi)
• Change 2011-2016	0.3%
• Dwellings	11,315
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Area code	819
Website	www.mrc-erable.qc.ca
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Subdivisions

There are 10 subdivisions within the RCM:^[2]

Cities & Towns (2) Plessisville Princeville

Municipalities (6) Inverness Laurierville Lyster Sainte-Sophie-d'Halifax Saint-Ferdinand Villeroy

Parishes (2) Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes Saint-Pierre-Baptiste

Demographics

Mother tongue from 2016 Canadian Census^[3]

Language	Population	Pct (%)
French only	22,735	98.3%
English only	150	0.6%
Both English and French	50	0.2%
Other languages	200	0.9%

Transportation

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:^[5]

Autoroutes None

Principal Highways R-116 R-165

Secondary Highways R-218 R-263 R-265 R-267

External Routes None

See also

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec