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Saône

The Saône (/soʊn/ SOHN, French: [son];[1] Arpitan: Sona; Latin: Arar) is a river in eastern France. It is a right tributary of the Rhône, rising at Vioménil in the Vosges department and joining the Rhône in Lyon, at the southern end of the Presqu'île.

For other uses, see Saone (disambiguation).

Saône

Sona (Arpitan)

France

Vioménil

Vosges

48°05′40″N 6°10′55″E / 48.094444°N 6.181944°E / 48.094444; 6.181944

392 m (1,286 ft)

Rhône

Lyon, France

45°43′39″N 4°49′4″E / 45.72750°N 4.81778°E / 45.72750; 4.81778

158 m (518 ft)

473 km (294 mi)

 

410 m3/s (14,000 cu ft/s)

Rhône→ Mediterranean Sea

 

Doubs, Lanterne

Azergues, Morgon

The name Saône derives from that of the Gallic river goddess Souconna, which has also been connected with a local Celtic tribe, the Sequanes. Monastic copyists progressively transformed Souconna to Saoconna, which ultimately gave rise to Saône. The other recorded ancient names for the river were Brigoulus and Arar.

Bridge over the Saône at Tournus

Bridge over the Saône at Tournus

View over the Saône, Lyon city centre

View over the Saône, Lyon city centre

La Mulatière seen from the Presqu'île

La Mulatière seen from the Presqu'île

The Lyon flood of 580

The floods of 1602 during the [8] and of 1711

autumn equinox

The flood of November 1840, with an estimated flow rate of almost 4,000 cubic metres per second (140,000 cu ft/s), destroyed numerous habitations along the . Many plaques marking this serious event are still visible in the villages affected. The high water measured at flood scales reached 8.05 metres (26.4 ft) at Mâcon and 7.28 metres (23.9 ft) at Chalon, or about 6 and 5.5 metres (20 and 18 ft) respectively above normal levels).

river valley

The flood of May 1856

The largest floods in the last 50 years as of 2006: January 1955, March 1970, December 1981 and 1982, May 1983, March 2001 and 2006.

List of rivers in France

The

Rhône

The

Doubs

is also a commune in the Doubs department

Saône

Chizerots

with maps and information on places, ports and moorings on the river from Corre to Saint-Jean-de-Losne, by the author of Inland Waterways of France, Imray

River Saône (Petite Saône)

with maps and information on places, ports and moorings on the river from Saint-Jean-de-Losne to Lyon, by the author of Inland Waterways of France, Imray

River Saône (Grande Saône)

(French waterways website section)

Navigation details for 80 French rivers and canals

Waterways in France

(in French)

Saone.org : French river cruising

on OpenStreetMap

The Saône

(in French) Navigation and information about the Saône

Saone.org

(in French) : The Saône

Dictionary of French rivers and canals on the Babel project

(in French) on the website of Voies Navigables de France

Navigable routes in France