Mecatina

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Mecatina pronounced (me-kuh-TEE-nuh), is an Innu word that means large mountain. It is also the name of two rivers (Big and Little), a school, and a municipality, on the Lower North Shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence of Quebec.

The Little Mecatina river was traversed for the first time on kayak by Rolf Theiß and Fritz Gottenströter of Guetersloh, Germany between 13 August and 4 September 1973.


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Coordinates: 50°12′35.8″N, 66°23′23.6″W