Southern Quebec's St. Lawrence River is divided into six integrated water management zones. The dataset provides the location and identification of these zones, published by the Government and Municipalities of Québec under a CC-BY-4.0 license. It was last updated on April 22, 2026.
Use Cases
- Delineate administrative boundaries for water resource planning based on the described management zones.
- Perform spatial analysis of watershed characteristics based on the zone polygons.
- Create thematic maps for public communication or regulatory purposes based on the zone identifiers.
Strengths
- Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats (SHP, GEOJSON, GPKG, ESRI REST), facilitating use in various GIS tools.
- Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for broad reuse and adaptation.
- Last updated date is explicitly provided (2026-04-22), indicating recent maintenance.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and total size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale projects.
Provenance
- Source
- Government and Municipalities of Québec
- Collection Method
- Likely derived from official administrative and hydrological planning processes.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-22 17:43:39.469196.
- Geography
- St. Lawrence River in southern Quebec, Canada