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The Aare (Swiss Standard German: ⓘ) or Aar (Swiss Standard German: ⓘ) is the main tributary of the High Rhine (its discharge even exceeds that of the latter at their confluence) [2] and the longest river that both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland.
The Aare Gorge (German: Aareschlucht) is a section of the river Aare that carves through a limestone ridge near the town of Meiringen, in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. [1] The gorge is an indirect product of glaciation ; 10,000 years ago, just as the Ice Age was coming to an end, torrential runoff water from melting glaciers ...
The Aargletschers, literally "Aare-Glaciers", are a system of glaciers located at the sources of the Aare river in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland.In the original German the name is "Aargletscher" both in singular and plural, as in German the plural of "gletscher" is only marked by a change of the article: der Gletscher (one glacier), die Gletscher (many glaciers).
The Murgenthal Status stipulates that the flow of the Aare River must not exceed 850m 3 /s (30,000 cu ft/s) at the gauge of Murgenthal's station, which is located downstream of the confluence of the Aare and the Emme rivers. When the Emme river flow increases, the flow of the Aare downstream of their confluence increases accordingly, which may ...
Before the building of the major bridges, a number of ferries existed in Bern to carry passengers and cargo across the Aare. Two remain in service: [ 25 ] The Reichenbach ferry ( 46°59′27″N 7°27′02″E / 46.9907°N 7.4505°E / 46.9907; 7.4505 ( Reichenbach ferry ) ) is a cable ferry established
Aarau is situated on the Swiss plateau, in the valley of the Aare, on the river's right bank, and at the southern foot of the Jura Mountains, [3] and is west of Zürich, [4] 58 kilometres (36 miles) south of Basel and 65 kilometres (40 miles) northeast of Bern. [5]
The reservoir with a surface of 1.16 km 2 (0.45 sq mi) was formed at the construction of a power plant on the Aare river in the 1930s. [citation needed] See also
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