Forestry is the main economic activity of the sector. Recreational tourism activities come second.
The hydrographic slope of Lake Caopatina is accessible through the forest road R1032 (North-South direction). The surface of Caopatina Lake is usually frozen from early November to mid-May, however, safe ice circulation is generally from mid-November to mid-April.
Geography
This lake has a length of 16.7 kilometres (10.4 mi), a maximum width of 5.1 kilometres (3.2 mi) and an altitude of 365 metres (1,198 ft). Caopatina Lake has many bays, peninsulas and islands. Six narrow, long peninsulas depart from the north shore stretching southwest to the center of the lake, the longest of which is 4.6 kilometres (2.9 mi). The lake has an archipelago of islands in the Southeast. The Caopatina River (tributary of the Waswanipi River) crosses the north-eastern part of Caopatina Lake to the west.
Lake Caopatina gets its supply on the east side by the Opawica River, on the south side by the Roy River and on the west side by the discharge of a group of small lakes.
The mouth of this lake Caopatina is located at the bottom of a bay in the North-West at:
Of Innu origin or Cree, this hydronym would mean "lake between two cliffs". The name "Lac Caopatina" has been indicated on various cartographic documents since at least 1927. In the past, this body of water was designated in various toponymic forms: Kaopatina, Kaopatnaginsckao and Lac de l'Épinette Rouge.[2]
^Distances measured from the Atlas of Canada (published on the Internet) of the Department of Natural Resources Canada.
^Source: Names and locations of Québec, a work of the Commission de toponymie published in 1994 and 1996 in the form of a printed illustrated dictionary, and under that of a CD-ROM produced by the company Micro-Intel, in 1997, from this dictionary.
