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Drôme (Aure)

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Country
  
France

Basin size
  
245 km (95 sq mi)

Source
  
Saint-Martin-des-Besaces

River mouth
  
Aure18 m (59 ft)

Length
  
58 km

Mouth
  
Aure

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Main source
  
Saint-Martin-des-Besaces205 m (673 ft)

Progression
  
Aure→ Vire→ English Channel

Discharge
  
Average rate:2.33 m/s (82 cu ft/s)  (Sully)

The Drôme is a 57.9 km long river in Normandy. Its source is on the border of the Manche and Calvados departments, at le Grand Cauville locality, near Saint-Martin-des-Besaces and joins the Aure, left bank at Maisons, downstream of Bayeux in the Bessin region. It is a sub-affluent of the Vire.

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Watershed

The watershed of the Drôme neighbours those of the Vire, Aure (east), Tortonne (NW) and Seulles (SE).

It is a narrow, northward basin. The longest of its affluents is the ruisseau du Vey (7.3 km)),which it joins at Cormolain.

Drôme valley

  • Castle (ranked monument historique) and Saint-Martin de Balleroy Church (ranked) at Balleroy,
  • Pont de Sully (inscrit) between Castillon and Vaubadon.
  • Manoir du Pont-Senot (inscrit) à Noron-la-Poterie.
  • Église Notre-Dame de Ranchy (clocher inscrit).
  • Château de Barbeville (inscrit).
  • Castle (inscrit) and Église Saint-Cyr-et-Sainte-Julitte (inscrite) at Vaucelles.
  • Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité at Sully (inscrite).

    • References

    Drôme (Aure) Wikipedia
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