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Sorgues (river)

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Basin size
  
279 km (108 sq mi)

Basin area
  
279 km²

Country
  
France

Length
  
46 km

Mouth
  
Dourdou de Camarès

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Main source
  
Cornus 600 m (2,000 ft)

River mouth
  
Dourdou de Camarès 298 m (978 ft)

Discharge
  
Average rate: 4.38 m/s (155 cu ft/s)

The Sorgues (French: la Sorgues, also called Sorgue) is a 46.4 km (28.8 mi) long river in the Aveyron département, southern France. Its source is a karstic spring at Cornus, on the causse du Larzac. It flows generally west-northwest. It is a right tributary of the Dourdou de Camarès into which it flows at Vabres-l'Abbaye.

Contents

Map of La Sorgue, France

Communes along its courseEdit

This list is ordered from source to mouth: Cornus, Fondamente, Marnhagues-et-Latour, Saint-Félix-de-Sorgues, Versols-et-Lapeyre, Saint-Affrique, Vabres-l'Abbaye

References

Sorgues (river) Wikipedia