Lac-Pikauba, Quebec

Lac-Pikauba is an unorganized territory in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. It is a large, unpopulated, undeveloped territory that makes up two-thirds of the Charlevoix Regional County Municipality.

Lac-Pikauba
Unorganized territory
Grands-Jardins National Park
Location within Charlevoix RCM.
Lac-Pikauba Location in central Quebec.
Coordinates: 47°48′N 71°07′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Capitale-Nationale
RCM	Charlevoix
Constituted	January 1, 1986
Government [2]
• Federal riding	Montmorency—Charlevoix —Haute-Côte-Nord
• Prov. riding	Charlevoix–Côte-de-Beaupré
Area [2][3]
• Total	2,512.50 km2 (970.08 sq mi)
• Land	2,461.22 km2 (950.28 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[3]
• Total	0
• Density	0.0/km2 (0/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	N/A
• Dwellings	208
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Highways	Route 169 Route 175 Route 381

The entire area west of Quebec Route 381, which bisects the territory, is part of the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve and the Grands-Jardins National Park. A portion of the Hautes-Gorges-de-la-Rivière-Malbaie National Park is in the north-eastern part of the territory.

The territory's largest lake is the eponymous Lake Pikauba. This toponym comes from the Montagnais word Opikopau. Opi is a root to indicate that something is enclosed or confined. Kopau describes a lake with alders, reeds, or other. So Pikauba may be translated as "lake narrowed by Alders". The map of provincial surveyor Frederic William Blaiklock from 1852 referred to this lake by the name Chicoutimi Lake.[4]