Dauphin River

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The Dauphin River is a river in the Canadian province of Manitoba.

The Dauphin River forms part of the flow path between the Manitobasee and Winnipeg. The Fairford River forms the outflow of Manitobasees and flows of the Portage Bay on Lake St. Martin. This is then the Dauphin River flows in a northeasterly direction on to Lake Winnipeg. The Manitoba Provincial Road 513 runs largely parallel to these two rivers.

In 1739 discovered François de La Vérendrye, a son of the Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes and Officer et de La Vérendrye, the river and gave him the name Dauphin, in honor of Louis Ferdinand de Bourbon, the eldest son of Louis XV. , King of France and Navarre, and his wife Maria Leszczyńska.

Since 1977, a hydrometric station of the Water Survey of Canada is located at Dauphin River near the village of Dauphin River ( ⊙ 52.001944444444-98.329722222222 ). The catchment area upstream from the measuring station is approximately 82,400 km ². In addition, a portion of the water of the Assiniboine River near Portage la Prairie is supplied this catchment area.

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