Caliento, Manitoba

Caliento is a small community in southeastern Manitoba in the Rural Municipality of Stuartburn situated between the communities of Vita, Zhoda, and Sundown. It is approximately 100 kilometers from Winnipeg and is around 45 kilometer from Emerson, Manitoba at the American border.

A post office was opened there circa 1912 on 14-2-8E and Safron Stefink was the first postmaster. The origin of the name is not certain.

References

Geographical Names of Manitoba - Caliento (page 40) - the Millennium Bureau of Canada

Subdivisions of Manitoba

Subdivisions	Regions Census divisions Municipalities Communities Indian reserves Population centres Designated places

Cities	Brandon Dauphin Flin Flon Morden Portage la Prairie Selkirk Steinbach Thompson Winkler Winnipeg

Towns	Altona Arborg Beausejour Carberry Carman Churchill Gillam Grand Rapids Lac du Bonnet Leaf Rapids Lynn Lake Melita Minnedosa Morris Neepawa Niverville The Pas Powerview-Pine Falls Snow Lake Ste. Anne Swan River Teulon Virden Winnipeg Beach Former towns: Birtle Boissevain Deloraine Emerson Erickson Gilbert Plains Gladstone Grandview Gretna Hamiota Hartney MacGregor Manitou Minitonas Oak Lake Pilot Mound Plum Coulee Rapid City Rivers Roblin Rossburn Russell Souris Sainte Rose du Lac Treherne

Villages	Dunnottar St-Pierre-Jolys Former villages: Benito Binscarth Bowsman Cartwright Crystal City Elkhorn Ethelbert Glenboro McCreary Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes Riverton Somerset St. Claude St. Lazare Waskada Wawanesa Winnipegosis

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Coordinates: 49°08′01″N 96°24′54″W / 49.13361°N 96.41500°W / 49.13361; -96.41500

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