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See also: the Dordogne

The the Dordogne (in Occitan Dordonha ) is a river of the Massif Central and Aquitanian Bassin. The valley of the Dordogne is classified country of art and history.

River or river?

The Dordogne joins the the Garonne on the level of the estuary of the Gironde. For this reason it is described as river in the dictionaries and encyclopedias like by the PIKE PERCH. However more and more as regional organizations describe it river, considering that the the Gironde is an estuary common to the Garonne and the Dordogne. The divergence of denomination (whereas these hydrological characteristics are not in question) returns to the problem of the definition of a Estuaire and illustrates the lack of relevance of the differentiation made in the French language between " River " and " River " to characterize a river. If the choice remains pain-killer for the name of the river, it implies however a hierarchisation different basins slopes. Let us note that the Dordogne could extremely well not have exceeded its junction with Chavanon, on the level of the very modest corrézienne commune of Confolent-Port-God, who is located at the beginning of the water reserve of the Stopping of Bort-the-Organ. Chavanon, sometimes called Chavanou, joined the bed of the Dordogne after a crucible of 54 km. The Dordogne, with this junction, traversed only 39, that is to say about fifteen less of them but, a contrario, it pours a higher volume of water. Chavanon is also called, in its course higher Ramade.

Geography

The Dordogne is formed on the sides of the Puy de Sancy, more the high mountain of the interior of France Puy-de-Dôme (63), by the meeting of two torrent S: the Gilds (1  885 m, (whose source was with 1694 meters of altitude in 1864) and who receives 1366 meter from altitude the Dogne .

It is thrown in the the Gironde with the nozzle of Ambès (the Gironde, 33), in a common Estuaire with the the Garonne.

Name

Contrary to appearances, the name of the Dordogne is not a recent assembly of the names of the Dore and the Dogne . Its name comes from old a Durānius , derived from the preceltic root Dur-, dor- (cf the Durance).

The medieval forms adopted a suffix redoubled - ononia : Dorononia fluvius (6th century), Dornonia (8th century) which evolves/moves in Dordonia (9th century) by a phenomenon of Dissimilation thus giving the impression of an etymology * the Dordogne .

Hydrography

Its flow of 400 m ³ /s with the mouth can reach 5.500 m ³ /s in period of rising. The Dordogne is navigable downstream from Libourne.

Course

Departments and crossed communes:

Principal affluents

Upstream with the downstream:

  • Puy-de-Dôme

    • the Plantadeix (1864)
    • (G) the Mortagne
    • (D) the Chavanon (or Chavanou: 1864) (or the Ramade in its upstream part)

  • the Dordogne

    • the Fénolle (1864)
    • the Enéa (brook) (1864)
    • the German (river 22 km)]
    • Céou, 61 km (1864)
    • Nauze, 17 km
    • (D) the Vézère
    • the Couze (1864)
    • the Caudau (1864)
    • the Heyraud (1864)
    • the Gardonette (1864)

N.B.: (D) = affluent Right Bank; (G) = affluent left bank ; (1864) = Dictionary of the communes of France, Adolphe Joanne, Hatchet, 1864

Stoppings

Tourist activities

See too

List of the rivers of France

External bonds

Dictionary of the Rivers and Channels in the Babel Project: The Dordogne

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