The Dauphin River is a
river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of w ...
of
Manitoba
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
. The Dauphin is part of the connection from
Lake Manitoba to
Lake Winnipeg
Lake Winnipeg (french: Lac Winnipeg, oj, ᐑᓂᐸᑲᒥᐠᓴᑯ˙ᑯᐣ, italics=no, Weenipagamiksaguygun) is a very large, relatively shallow lake in North America, in the province of Manitoba, Canada. Its southern end is about north of t ...
. The
Fairford River flows from Portage Bay in Lake Manitoba through to
Lake St. Martin then the Dauphin River continues northeastward from Lake St. Martin into Lake Winnipeg. The two streams parallel
Manitoba Provincial Road 513 much of the way. The Fairford River passes through the
Rural Municipality of Grahamdale in its flow eastward.
Water Survey of Canada has operated a hydrometric station on the Dauphin River near the community of Dauphin River (52°0'7" N, 98°19'47" W) since 1977. The gross drainage area above the monitoring station, excluding the diversion from the Assiniboine River near Portage la Prairie, is about .
See also
*
List of rivers of Manitoba
References
* https://www.gov.mb.ca/inr/publications/community_profiles/pubs/dauphin-river-2016.pdf
* http://www.dauphinriver.northcentralmb.ca/
* https://www.irtc.ca/dauphin-river-first-nation/
Rivers of Manitoba
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