La Pocatière
La Pocatière | |
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| Motto: Intellectum valde amo | |
Location within Kamouraska RCM | |
La Pocatière Location in eastern Quebec La Pocatière La Pocatière (Canada) | |
| Coordinates: 47°22′N 70°02′W / 47.367°N 70.033°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| Region | Bas-Saint-Laurent |
| RCM | Kamouraska |
| Settled | 1672 |
| Constituted | September 3, 2025 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Vincent Bérubé |
| • Federal riding | Côte-du-Sud—Rivière-du-Loup—Kataskomiq—Témiscouata |
| • Prov. riding | Côte-du-Sud |
| Area | |
• City | 202.05 km2 (78.01 sq mi) |
| • Land | 178.72 km2 (69.00 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 5.22 km2 (2.02 sq mi) |
| Population (2021) | |
• City | 6,197 |
| • Density | 34.7/km2 (90/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 3,921 |
| • Urban density | 751/km2 (1,950/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2016-2021 | 1.9% |
| • Dwellings | 3,223 |
| Demonyms | Pocatois, Pocatoise |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | |
| Area codes | 418 and 581 |
| Highways A-20 (TCH) | R-132 R-230 |
| Website | www |
La Pocatière (French pronunciation: [la pɔkatjɛʁ]) is a town in the Kamouraska Regional County Municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada.