Noire River (Fourche River tributary)

The Rivière Noire is a tributary of the northeast bank of the rivière à la Fourche (Champlain River), flowing in the municipalities of Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes and of Saint-Maurice, in the Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Mauricie, in province of Quebec, in Canada.

The river surface is generally frozen from mid-December until the end of March, however the safe circulation on the ice is generally done from end of December to the beginning of March.

The upper part of the river flows parallel to route 359.

The source of this river is located 3.8 kilometres (2.4 mi) south of the village center of Saint-Narcisse, 7.7 kilometres (4.8 mi) north-west of the confluence of the rivière à la Fourche (Champlain River) and 14.1 kilometres (8.8 mi) northwest of the north shore of the St. Lawrence River.

The confluence of the Black River is located at: The toponym "Rivière Noire" was formalized on November 27, 1979, at the Commission de toponymie du Québec.