Portage River (Bécancour River tributary)

The rivière du Portage (in English: Portage Rivere) is a tributary of the Bécancour River which flows on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. The "rivière du Portage" flows in the municipalities of Saint-Valère and Daveluyville, in the Arthabaska Regional County Municipality (MRC), in the administrative region from Centre-du-Québec, to Quebec, to Canada.

Portage River
Native name	Rivière Portage (French)
Location
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Centre-du-Québec
MRC	Arthabaska Regional County Municipality
Municipalities	Saint-Valère, Daveluyville
Physical characteristics
Source	Agricultural and forest streams
• location	Saint-Rosaire
• coordinates	46.179983°N 72.106097°W / 46.179983; -72.106097
• elevation	106 m (348 ft)
Mouth	Bécancour River
• location	Daveluyville
• coordinates	46.19667°N 72.18417°W / 46.19667; -72.18417
• elevation	39 m (128 ft)
Length	12.5 km (7.8 mi)
Basin features
Progression	Bécancour River, St. Lawrence River
Tributaries
• left	(upstream) ruisseau Morissette, ruisseau Soucy, ruisseau David-Bourque
• right	(upstream) ruisseau Beauchesne, ruisseau Blaise, ruisseau "Le Petit Portage"

Geography

The main hydrographic slopes of the "Portage river" are:

• north side: Bécancour River;
• east side: Pimbina river, Blanche River;
• south side: Bulstrode River
• west side: Blanche River.

The "Portage River" has its source in an agricultural area of the municipality of Saint-Valère, south of the Defoy hamlet (of Daveluyville), on the east side of route 261 and north of the Bulstrode River.

From its source, the Portage River flows over 12.5 kilometres (7.8 mi), especially in agricultural (or forest, in places) territory according to the following segments:

• 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) north into Saint-Valère;
• 3.6 kilometres (2.2 mi) north through Daveluyville, passing west of the Defoy hamlet, to highway 20;
• 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi) north to its mouth.

The Portage River flows onto the south shore of the Bécancour River, just downstream from Portage Island and downstream from the village of Daveluyville.

Toponymy

The toponym "rivière du Portage" was made official on December 5, 1968, at Commission de toponymie du Québec.

See also

• List of rivers of Quebec

Further reading

• Pierre Morin; Félix Boulanger (2005). Groupe de concertation du bassin de la rivière Bécancour (ed.). Portrait of the environment of the Bécancour river watershed (PDF) (2 ed.). Plessisville. p. 247.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)