General Information

Meaning: Place where there is a smell of rotten meat
Population: 1476

Located 4 km from Povungnituk Bay, on the north shore of the major river by the same name, this Inuit village is surrounded by an expansive plateau. It is a mixture of countless lakes and rivers, rich wildlife and precious arctic plants and flowers.

Puvirnituq also witnesses every year the migration of the Leaf River caribou herd.

For several days every fall, thousands of caribou, their hooves pounding the frozen tundra, arrive and plunge across the Povungnituk River in a spectacular display.