Manitoba Cuesta

Manitoba Cuesta, steep, east-facing escarpment in southeastern Manitoba, Canada. Rising 500–1,000 feet (150–300 metres) above the lowlands of southern Manitoba, the ridge extends for about 350 miles (560 km) from the Canada-U.S. boundary west of the Red River northwestward to the Carrot River, just inside Saskatchewan. From north to south several rivers, the Red Deer, Woody, Swan, Valley, and Assiniboine, have eroded it into what appears to be groups of hills (Pasquia, Porcupine, Duck, Riding,...