Geography of Seine-et-Marne
Situation
The Département of Seine-et-Marne belongs to the Région Île-de-France, of which it constitutes the Eastern half, its surface accounts for 49% of the territory of the Ile-de-France. It is bordering on the departments of the Val-d'Oise, of the Seine-Saint-Denis, the the Valley-of-Marne and the the Essonne in the west, the Loiret and the Yonne in the south, the Aube and the Marne in the east, the Aisne and the Oise in north.
Between the Seine and the Marne, the plate extends from the Brie, intersected with small valleys where rivers and brooks run. On left bank of the the Seine, the plate of the Gâtinais is during plate briard. Its grounds are quite as fertile. The culminating point of the department is the Butte Saint-Georges (215 m). Seine-Port with a site to 35 m above the sea level is the point low of the department.
The widest commune is Fontainebleau with 17.205 ha; on the other hand, the Nanteuil-on-Marne covers only 125 ha.
Hydrography
The Seine which drains finally all water of the rivers of the department crosses this last on 106 km. Its principal affluent Seine-and-marnais is the Marne which extends its course on 100 km in the department. The Seine sprinkles in particular the Bray-on-Seine, Montereau-Fault-Yonne and Melun; the Marne bathes Meaux, Esbly and Lagny-sur-Marne. The Small Morin, the Ourcq, the Large Morin and the Beuvronne are affluents of the Marne. The Orvin, the Voulzie, the Yonne, the Loing and the Yerres are thrown in the Seine.
Ponds and marshes were formerly very numerous, but following the work of drainage especially undertaken to XIXe and XXe centuries, these zones are much rarer today.
Natural areas
The department does not constitute a homogeneous natural area and extends on the Brie, the Gâtinais, the Île-de-France and the Champagne. While refining, one distinguishes in the south from the the Seine the Pays from Beer (around Fontainebleau) being next to the septentrional end from Gâtinais. In the north of the Seine, one finds the Goële and the Multien. In the south of the Goële, some communes is in France. Between the Seine and Marne, the Brie cuts out of west in is in Brie Wooded, the Brie Melunaise, the Wet Brie, the Dairy Brie, the Brie Provinoise and the Montois.
Demography
- See article: Demography of Seine-et-Marne
See too
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