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River flow is particularly high in the river area near Roanne and Vichy up to the confluence with the Allier. [3] In the middle section of the river in the Loire Valley, numerous dikes built between the 12th and 19th century exist, providing mitigation against flooding.
Its source is in the Eure-et-Loir department, north of Illiers-Combray. It joins the river Sarthe in Briollay, north of the city of Angers. It is indirectly a tributary of the Loire, and runs roughly parallel to it and slightly north of it for much of its length, and so might be regarded as a Yazoo type river. [citation needed]
Sunset on the Loire River from the Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art. The Loire Valley (French: Vallée de la Loire, pronounced [vale də la lwaʁ]), spanning 280 kilometres (170 mi), [1] is a valley located in the middle stretch of the Loire river in central France, in both the administrative regions Pays de la Loire and Centre-Val de Loire.
The river spring is located at Perche-Gouët, Béthonvilliers at 222 m high at le Burail locality in le Bois de Beaumont. 2 offshoots: la Suzanne ou Sainte-Suzanne et l'Ozanne de Dampierre ou Moranne ou Mozanne which join near Brou. It flows into le Loir, right bank, 1 km north of Bonneval at 129 m high at Ouzenain (locality).
The Sèvre Nantaise (French pronunciation: [sɛvʁ nɑ̃tɛz]) is a river in the Pays de la Loire regions in western France. It is a left-bank tributary of the Loire. Its total length is 141.8 km (88.1 mi). [1] Its source is in the Deux-Sèvres department, near Secondigny.
It is the prefecture of the department of Loiret and of the region of Centre-Val de Loire. Orléans is located on the river Loire nestled in the heart of the Loire Valley, classified as a World Heritage Site, where the river curves south towards the Massif Central. In 2020, the city had 117,026 inhabitants within its municipal boundaries. [9]
The source is some 20 kilometres (12 mi) south-east of Moulins. Its basin drains the area between the lower reaches of the Allier in the west and the Besbre to the east. Like its neighbors, it maintains a northerly direction, for more than 60 kilometres (37 mi) and eventually empties into the Loire near the town of Avril-sur-Loire , just ...
The Mayenne (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a 202.3 km (125.7 mi) long river in western France, principally located in the French region of Pays de la Loire. [1] Together with the river Sarthe and its tributary the Loir it forms the Maine, which is a tributary to the Loire.