Salm

The Salm is a river of Belgium which takes source with Bovigny, bathes the villages of Salm, Vielsalm (where it fills a small stopping), Halleux, and comes to be thrown in the Amblève with Trois-Ponts.

Its name comes from Celtic “the salwa” (black, scrambled), word passed into Germanic.

In fact clean Salm is a small affluent, which takes its source with Poteau (Small-Tier), passes by City-of-Wood and is thrown in the Glain in Vielsalm; just with the site of the first castle of the Counts de Salm; but when those moved with Salmchâteau, Glain beyond the confluence with Salm is in its turn often called Salm .

Salm also left its name to the Principauté of Salm in the the Vosges in France which was property of the counts de Salm.

Flow

The medium flow of the river measured with Three-decker over one 11 years duration between 1993 and 2003 is of 3,2 m ³ a second (catchment area of 202 km ²). During the same period one recorded:

an average maximum of 5,5 m ³ in 1994.
an average minimum of 1,6 in 1996.

Source: Ministry for the Walloon region .

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