Portage la Prairie

Portage la Prairie is a little city in the Central Plains Region of Manitoba, Canada. Starting at 2016, the populace was 13,304 and the land territory of the city was 24.68 square kilometers. Portage la Prairie is around 75 kilometers west of Winnipeg, along the Trans-Canada Highway precisely between the commonplace limits of Saskatchewan and Ontario, and sits on the Assiniboine River, which overflowed the town diligently until the point when a preoccupation channel north to Lake Manitoba the Portage Diversion was worked to occupy the surge waters.

The city is encompassed by the Rural Municipality of Portage la Prairie. As indicated by Environment Canada, Portage la Prairie has the most radiant days amid the warm a very long time in Canada. It is the authoritative base camp of the Dakota Tipi First Nations hold.

The region was first possessed by Indigenous people groups, some time before European pilgrims started to land preceding 1850. In September 1738, after the hide exchange had reached out into Western Canada. Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Verendrye assembled Fort La Reine north of the Assiniboine River to fill in as a hide exchanging post, and give the adventurers a "home" working base, from which they would investigate different parts of focal Manitoba and western North America.