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Île-Bonaventure-et-du-Rocher-Percé National Park (French: Parc national de l'île-Bonaventure-et-du-Rocher-Percé, pronounced [paʁk nasjɔnal də lil bɔnavɑ̃tyʁ e dy ʁɔʃe pɛʁse]) is a provincial park of Quebec.
Forillon National Park, one of 42 national parks and park reserves across Canada, is located at the outer tip of the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec and covers 244 km 2 (94 sq mi). [2] Created in 1970, Forillon was the first national park in Quebec.
The Pic de l'Aurore (Peak o'Dawn or Rosy Peak) is a cliff culminating at about 800 feet at the west entrance of the village of Percé on the Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec, Canada. From its top you can view both the bay of Gaspé up to Forillon National Park , and the bay of Percé including the Percé Rock and the Parc national de l'île-Bonaventure ...
Cap Gaspé is a headland at the eastern extremity of the Gaspé Peninsula in the Canadian province of Quebec. It is within Forillon National Park . This Quebec location article is a stub .
The peninsula is one of Quebec's most popular tourism regions. The Gaspé National Park (Parc national de la Gaspésie) is in the Chic-Chocs, and Forillon National Park is at the peninsula's northeastern tip. A section of the International Appalachian Trail travels through the peninsula's mountains. Bonaventure National Park is here.
The tip of the Gaspé Peninsula has five geological formations, and Percé Rock is the only one located within the park. The park extends over a 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) stretch of the coastline, and exhibits a wide variety of flora and fauna.
Bonaventure Island (officially in French: île Bonaventure [il bɔnavɑ̃tyʁ]) is a Canadian island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence located 3.5 km (2.2 mi) off the southern coast of Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula, 5 km (3.1 mi) southeast of the village of Percé. Roughly circular in shape, it has an area measuring 4.16 km 2 (1.61 sq mi).
Route 198 is a 132 km two-lane highway which cuts through the Appalachian Mountains in the Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec, Canada.It acts both as a shortcut to get to Gaspé without having to go through many small villages and steep climbs on Route 132, and it also is the only link to Murdochville, the one municipality along this long stretch of highway.