The La Salle is a river in
Manitoba
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, Canada, with its source near
Portage la Prairie
Portage la Prairie () is a small city in the Central Plains Region of Manitoba, Canada. As of 2016, the population was 13,304 and the land area of the city was .
Portage la Prairie is approximately west of Winnipeg, along the Trans-Canada Hi ...
and terminating in the
Red River in
Saint Norbert (southern
Winnipeg
Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749 ...
). The La Salle River flows mainly through agricultural land. It is a slow-moving, meandering prairie river with variable depth. It is the primary river that flows throughout most of the rural municipality of
Macdonald
Macdonald, MacDonald or McDonald may refer to:
Organisations
* McDonald's, a chain of fast food restaurants
* McDonald & Co., a former investment firm
* MacDonald Motorsports, a NASCAR team
* Macdonald Realty, a Canadian real estate brokerage f ...
.
On older maps, the river is named ''la Rivière Sale'', ''la Rivière Salle'', ''Salle River'', or ''Stinking River''.
[Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin et Louis Rousselet, ''Nouveau dictionnaire de géographie universelle'', Hachette, Paris, 1892, p.514.]
See also
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List of rivers of Manitoba
This is an incomplete list of rivers of Manitoba, a province of Canada.
Watersheds
The entire province of Manitoba is within the Hudson Bay drainage basin:
*Nelson River
**Lake Winnipeg watershed
***Winnipeg River
*** Red River
****Assiniboine ...
References
External links
Rivers of Manitoba
Tributaries of Hudson Bay
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