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Portneuf County is an historic and administrative rural County West of [[Quebec city]] in [[Quebec]], [[Canada]]. It's boundary sprawled from the shore of the St-Lawrence to the public mountainous land of the Laurentians Laurentian (Canadian Shield) in the north covering a vast area of about 4000km². It also forms the western limit to the administrative region of [[Quebec city]]. This mainly rural county, with a population of about 35000, is a typical 'out of the touristic track' area and this eventhough even though it includes some quite majestic natural landscape and townscape. Hitch-hiking between the different localities of this territory is normally easy, especially when the traveller stick to the provincial roads (those having 3 numbers). It should as well be easy to either reach [[Quebec city]] or come from there.

Highway A40 [[Quebec highways|A-40]] runs through the south of Portneuf County while travelling from [[Quebec city]] to [[Trois-Rivières]], the western end of the County mark the halfway between Quebec and [[Trois-Rivières ]] in your path.