Brûlé Lake (Lac-Jacques-Cartier)
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| Brûlé Lake | |
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  Brûlé Lake | |
| Location | Lac-Jacques-Cartier, La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality, Capitale-Nationale, Quebec, Canada |
| Coordinates | 47°18′18″N 70°53′49″W / 47.30500°N 70.89694°W |
| Primary inflows | (Clockwise from the mouth) Lac des Vases outlet, an unidentified stream and the Lac à Chiens outlet |
| Primary outflows | Outlet of Brûlé Lake |
| Basin countries | Canada |
| Max. length | 4.2 km (2.6 mi) |
| Max. width | 1.7 km (1.1 mi) |
| Surface elevation | 841 m (2,759 ft) |
Lac Brûlé (English: Burnt Lake) is a body of fresh water located northeast of the city of Quebec, in the unorganized territory of Lac-Jacques-Cartier, in the La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Capitale-Nationale, in the province, in Quebec, in Canada.
Lac Brûlé is served by a few secondary forest roads for forestry purposes.[1] Forestry is the main economic activity in this valley; recreational tourism, second.
Because of the altitude, the surface of Lac Brûlé is generally frozen from the end of November until the beginning of April; however, safe circulation on the ice is generally done from the beginning of December until the beginning of April.
Lac Brûlé which is set between the mountains. Its mouth is located at:
- 24.0 kilometres (14.9 mi) west of the northwest shore of the St. Lawrence River;
- 54 kilometres (34 mi) west of the summit of Mont Raoul-Blanchard;
- 12.2 kilometres (7.6 mi) north-west of the confluence of the Sainte-Anne and Brûlé rivers;
- 33.0 kilometres (20.5 mi) southwest of downtown Baie-Saint-Paul.[2]
Lac Brûlé has a length of 4.2 kilometres (2.6 mi), a width of 1.7 kilometres (1.1 mi) and an altitude of 841 metres (2,759 ft). This misshapen body of water looks like a mushroom, the stem of which leans west. Lac Savane is mainly supplied by the outlet of Lac des Vases, an unidentified stream and the outlet of Lac à Chiens. Lac Brûlé is a body of water artificially enhanced by the construction of a dam at its mouth.
From the dam at the mouth of Brûlé Lake, the current descends following the outlet of Brûlé Lake on 3.4 kilometres (2.1 mi), then the course of the Brûlé River on 18.6 kilometres (11.6 mi), then flows on 53.9 kilometres (33.5 mi) first towards the south-east, then the south-west, following the course of the Sainte-Anne River, which crosses downtown Beaupré, to the northwest shore of the Saint Lawrence River.[2]