Loire
langest river in Fraunce / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Loire (French pronunciation: [lwaʁ]; Laitin: Liger; Occitan: Léger; Breton: Liger) is the langest river in Fraunce.[3] Wi a length o 1,012 kilometre (629 mi), it drains an auriea o 117,054 km2 (45,195 sq mi), which represents mair nor a fift o Fraunce's land aurie.[1] It is the 170t langest river in the warld. It rises in the Cévennes in the département o Ardèche at 1,350 m (4,430 ft) near Mont Gerbier de Jonc, an flaws for ower 1,000 km (620 mi) north through Nevers tae Orléans, then wast through Tours an Nantes till it reaches the Bay o Biscay at St Nazaire. Its main tributaries include the Maine, Nièvre an the Erdre rivers on its richt bank, an the Allier, Cher, Indre, Vienne, an the Sèvre Nantaise rivers frae the left bank. The Loire gies its name tae sax départements: Loire, Haute-Loire, Loire-Atlantique, Indre-et-Loire, Maine-et-Loire, an Saône-et-Loire. The central part o the Loire Valley wis addit tae the Warld Heritage Steids leet o UNESCO on December 2, 2000. The banks are characterized bi vineyards an chateaux in the Loire Valley.
Loire | |
River Loire Maine-et-Loire | |
Kintra | France |
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Tributaries | |
- left | Allier, Cher, Indre, Vienne, Sèvre Nantaise |
- right | Maine, Nièvre, Erdre |
Soorce | Massif Central |
- location | Sainte-Eulalie, Ardèche |
- elevation | 1,408 m (4,619 ft) [1] |
- coordinates | 44°49′48″N 4°13′20″E |
Mooth | Atlantic Ocean |
- location | Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique |
- elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
- coordinates | 47°16′09″N 2°11′09″E |
Lenth | 1,012 km (629 mi) [1] |
Basin | 117,000 km2 (45,174 sq mi) [1] |
Discharge | for Montjean |
- average | 835.3 m3/s (29,498 cu ft/s) [2] |
- max | 4,150 m3/s (146,600 cu ft/s) |
- min | 60 m3/s (2,119 cu ft/s) |
Cairt o Fraunce wi the Loire heichlichtit |
The Loire Valley haes been cried the "Garden o Fraunce" an is studded wi ower a thoosand chateaux, each wi distinct airchitectural embellishments coverin a wide range o variations,[4] frae the early medieval tae the late Renaissance periods.[5] Thay wur oreeginally creatit as feudal stranghaulds, ower centuries past, in the strategic divide atween soothren an northren Fraunce; nou mony are privately awned.[6]