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 Highway 132. Map of Quebec showing Bas-Saint-Laurent The Bas-Saint-Laurent (Lower Saint-Lawrence) region is located in Quebec. ... During the 1960s, a terrorist group known as the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) launched a decade of bombings, robberies and attacks on government offices. ... The Saint Lawrence River (French: fleuve Saint-Laurent) is a large west-to-east flowing river in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. ... Quebec Highway 132 is one of the longest highways in Quebec. ...

The port of Gros-Cacouna is situated on the river. The Maliseet First Nations of Viger reserve also called Cacouna is located nearby. The Maliseet (also known as Wolastoqiyik and in French also as Étchemins and Malécites) are a Native American tribe that inhabits the Saint John River valley and its tributaries, roughly overlapping the International Boundary between New Brunswick and Quebec in Canada, and Maine in the United States. ... First Nations is the current title used by Canada to describe the various societies of the indigenous peoples, called Native Americans in the U.S. They have also been known as Indians, Native Canadians, Aboriginal Americans, Amer-Indians, or Aboriginals, and are officially called Indians in the Indian Act, which...

The extensive salt marshes near the port are an important habitat for migrating waterfowl. This article is about marsh, a type of wetland. ... // Long-distance land bird migration Many species of land birds migrate very long distances, the most common pattern being for birds to breed in the temperate or arctic northern hemisphere and winter in warmer regions, often in the tropics or the southern hemisphere. ...

The name "Cacouna" comes from the Algonquian word Kakoua-Nak, meaning "land of the porcupine". The Algonquian (also Algonkian) languages are a subfamily of Native American languages that includes most of the languages in the Algic language family (others are Wiyot and Yurok of northwestern California). ... Genera Family Erethizontidae   Coendou   Sphiggurus   Erethizon   Echinoprocta Family Hystricidae   Atherurus   Hystrix   Thecurus   Trichys The porcupine is a rodent known for its coat of sharp spines, or quills that defend it from predators. ...

According to the Canada 2001 Census: The Canada 2001 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population. ...

• Population: 1,098
• % Change (1996-2001): -2.8
• Dwellings: 509
• Area (sq. km.): 7.12 km²
• Density (persons per sq. km.): 154.2