Rivière-du-Loup is a county regional municipality of Quebec in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. Its most important city is Rivière-du-Loup, which contains more than half of the population of the region.

Major industries include pulp

Wood pulp

Pulp is a lignocellulosic fibrous material prepared by chemically or mechanically separating cellulose fibres from wood, fibre crops or waste paper. Wood pulp is the most common raw material in papermaking.-History:...

 and paper, other wood products, peat

Peat

Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation matter or histosol. Peat forms in wetland bogs, moors, muskegs, pocosins, mires, and peat swamp forests. Peat is harvested as an important source of fuel in certain parts of the world...

 products, mineral products and textiles.

The name comes from the French, "River of the Wolf"

According to the 2006 Statistics Canada

Statistics Canada

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 Census:

• Population: 33,305
• % Change (2001-2006): +4.6
• Dwellings: 15,693
• Area (km²): 1,273.26 km²
• Density (persons per km²): 26.2

Communities

• Rivière-du-Loup
• L'Isle-Verte
• Saint-Cyprien
  Saint-Cyprien, Rivière-du-Loup
  Saint-Cyprien is a town in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada, in Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality.- References :***...
  
  
• Saint-Épiphane
  Saint-Épiphane, Quebec
  Saint-Épiphane is a municipality in Quebec in the administrative region of Bas-Saint-Laurent and the regional county municipality of Rivière-du-Loup.-Images:...
  
  
• Saint-François-Xavier-de-Viger
  Saint-François-Xavier-de-Viger, Quebec
  Saint-François-Xavier-de-Viger is a municipality in Quebec....
  
  
• Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup
  Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec
  Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup is a municipality in Quebec in the administrative region of Bas-Saint-Laurent and the regional county municipality of Rivière-du-Loup....
  
  
• Saint-Georges-de-Cacouna
  Saint-Georges-de-Cacouna, Quebec
  Saint-Georges-de-Cacouna or Cacouna is a village in the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality within the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec. It is located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River along Route 132....
  
  
• Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs
  Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs, Quebec
  Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs is an island municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality...
  
  
• Notre-Dame-du-Portage
  Notre-Dame-du-Portage, Quebec
  Notre-Dame-du-Portage is a village in the Canadian Province of Quebec located at the edge of the Saint Lawrence River in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region...
  
  
• Saint-Antonin
  Saint-Antonin, Quebec
  Saint-Antonin is a parish municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada, a few kilometres south of the city of Rivière-du-Loup, in Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality.- References :***...
  
  
• Saint-Arsène
  Saint-Arsène, Quebec
  Saint-Arsène is a parish municipality in Quebec....
  
  
• Saint-Modeste
  Saint-Modeste, Quebec
  Saint-Modeste is a parish municipality in Quebec....
  
  
• Saint-Paul-de-la-Croix
  Saint-Paul-de-la-Croix, Quebec
  Saint-Paul-de-la-Croix is a parish municipality in Quebec in the regional county municipality of Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality and the administrative region of Bas-Saint-Laurent....