Rivers of France - Definition and Overview

This is an alphabetical list of rivers, which are at least partially located in France. Below, there is a list of rivers of France by tributaries.

Contents

1 Alphabetical list

2 Tributary list

2.1 Atlantic Ocean
2.2 The Channel
2.3 Mediterranean Sea
2.4 North Sea
2.5 Unsorted

3 See also

Alphabetical list

Aa, Adour, Agoût, Aigre, Ain, Aisne, Allagnon, Allan, Allier, Alzette, Anse, Arc, Ardèche, Argens, Armançon, Ariège, Arly, Arrondine, Arros, Arroux, Arve, Aube, Aubette (Côte d'Or), Aubette (Rouen), Aubette de Magny, Aubette de Meulan, Aude, Aulne, Authie, Aveyron, Avre, Baïse, Bar, Besbre, Beuvron, Blavet, Bourbeuse, Bramont, Bray-de-Lû, Braye, Bresle, Brevenne, Cailly, Canche, Célé, Cère, Chaise, Charente, Charentonne, Cher, Chiers, Clain, Conie, Corrèze , Couesnon, Creuse, Cure, Deûle, Dives, Dordogne, Dore, Doron de Beaufort, Doubs, Dourbie, Drac, Drôme, Durance, Échez, Epte, Erdre, Escaut, Essonne, Eure, Flon, Furan or Furens, Gard or Gardon, Garonne, Gartempe, Gave de Pau, Gave d'Oloron, Gers, Gironde, Golo, Grand Morin, Hérault, Ill, Indre, Isère, Isle, Iton, Lède, Lémance, Leyre, Loing, Loir, Loire, Loiret, Lot, Loue, Lys, Madeleine, Maine, Marne, Mayenne, Meurthe, Meuse, Moselle, Nonette, Noye, Odet, Odon, Ognon, Oise, Orb, Orge, Ornain, Orne (2x), Ouche, Ourcq, Oust, Ozanne, Petit Morin, Puiseaux, Rance, Reyssouze, Rhine, Rhône, Risle or Rille, Robec, Saint-Nicolas, Sambre, Saône, Sarre/Saar, Sarthe, Sauldre, Saulx, Save, Scarpe, Seille, Seine, Selune, Semois/Semoy, Seudre, Sèvre Nantaise, Sèvre Niortaise, Sioule, Somme, Tarn, Tarnon, Tech, Têt, Tille, Touques, Trieux, Truyère, Var, Vendée, Verdon, Vesle, Veules, Vézère, Vidourle, Vienne, Vilaine, Vire, Yerre, Yèvre, Yonne, Yser, Yvette

Tributary list

Atlantic Ocean

Adour (in Bayonne)
- Gave de Pau (near Peyrehorade)
  - Gave d'Oloron (in Peyrehorade)
- Arros (near Riscle)
- Échez (in Maubourguet)

Charente (near Rochefort)

Gironde (near Royan)
- Garonne (near Ambès)
  - Lot (near Aiguillon)
    - Lède (near Villeneuve-sur-Lot)
    - Lémance (in Fumel)
    - Célé (near Cabrerets)
    - Truyère (in Entraygues-sur-Truyère)
    - Bramont (near Mende)
  - Baïse (near Aiguillon)
  - Gers (near Agen)
  - Tarn (near Castelsarassin)
    - Aveyron (near Montauban)
    - Agoût (in Saint-Sulpice)
    - Dourbie (in Millau)
    - Tarnon (in Florac)
  - Save (in Grenade)
  - Ariège (in Toulouse)
- Dordogne (near Ambès)
  - Isle (in Libourne)
  - Vézère (near Le Bugue)
    - Corrèze (in Brive-la-Gaillarde)
  - Cère (near Bretenoux)

Loire (in Saint-Nazaire)
- Sèvre Nantaise (in Nantes)
- Erdre (in Nantes)
- Maine (near Angers)
  - Mayenne (near Angers)
  - Sarthe (near Angers)
    - Loir (north of Angers)
      - Braye (in Pont-de-Braye)
      - Aigre (near Cloyes-sur-le-Loir)
      - Yerre (near Cloyes-sur-le-Loir)
      - Conie (near Châteaudun)
      - Ozanne (in Bonneval)
- Vienne (in Candes-Saint-Martin)
  - Creuse (north of Châtellerault)
    - Gartempe (in La Roche-Posay)
  - Clain (in Châtellerault)
- Indre (east of Candes-Saint-Martin)
- Cher (in Villandry)
  - Sauldre (in Selles-sur-Cher)
  - Yèvre (in Vierzon)
- Beuvron (in Chaumont-sur-Loire)
- Loiret (in Orléans)
- Allier (near Nevers)
  - Sioule (near Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule)
  - Dore (near Puy-Guillaume)
  - Allagnon (near Jumeaux)
- Besbre (near Dompierre-sur-Besbre)
- Arroux (in Digoin)
- Furan (in Andrézieux-Bouthéon)

Odet (in Bénodet)

Seudre (in Marennes)

Sèvre Niortaise (north of La Rochelle)
- Vendée (in Marans)

Vilaine (in Pénestin)
- Oust (in Redon)

The Channel

Aa (in Gravelines)

Authie (near Berck)

Bresle (in Le Tréport)

Canche (in Étaples)

Couesnon (near Mont Saint Michel)

Dives (in Cabourg)

Orne (in Ouistreham)
- Odon (in Caen)

Rance (in Saint-Malo)

Seine (in Le Havre)
- Risle or Rille (in Berville-sur-Mer)
  - Charentonne (near Bernay)
- Cailly (in Rouen)
- Aubette (Rouen) (in Rouen)
  - Robec (in Rouen)
- Eure (in Pont-de-l'Arche)
  - Iton (near Louviers)
  - Avre (near Dreux)
- Epte (near Vernon)
  - Aubette de Magny (in Bray-et-Lû)
- Aubette de Meulan (in Meulan)
- Oise (in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, west of Paris)
  - Aisne (in Compiègne)
    - Vesle (in Condé-sur-Aisne)
- Marne (in Ivry-sur-Seine, south-east of Paris)
  - Grand Morin (near Meaux)
  - Ourcq (near Lizy-sur-Ourcq)
  - Petit Morin (in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre)
  - Saulx (in Vitry-le-François)
    - Ornain (in Pargny-sur-Saulx)
- Orge (in Athis-Mons)
  - Yvette (in Épinay-sur-Orge)
- Essonne (in Corbeil-Essonnes)
- Loing (near Moret-sur-Loing)
  - Puiseaux (in Montargis)
- Yonne (in Montereau-Fault-Yonne)
  - Armançon (in Migennes)
  - Cure (near Vermenton)
- Aube (near Romilly-sur-Seine)
  - Aubette (Côte d'Or) (near Dancevoir)

Somme (near Abbeville)
- Noye (in Amiens)

Touques (in Deauville)

Veules (in Veules-les-Roses)

Vire (in Isigny-sur-Mer)

Mediterranean Sea

Arc (near Berre-l'Étang via the Étang de Berre lagoon)

Argens (in Fréjus)

Aude (near Narbonne)

Golo (near Bastia)

Hérault (near Agde)

Orb (in Valras-Plage)

Rhône (in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône)
- Gard or Gardon (in Beaucaire)
- Durance (in Avignon)
  - Verdon (in Saint-Paul-lès-Durance)
- Ardèche (in Pont-Saint-Esprit)
- Drôme (in Loriol-sur-Drôme)
- Isère (near Valence)
  - Arc (near St-Pierre-d'Albigny)
  - Arly (in Albertville)
    - Arrondine
    - Chaise
    - Flon
    - Doron de Beaufort
  - Drac (in Grenoble)
- Saône (in Lyon)
  - Reyssouze (near Pont-de-Vaux)
  - Doubs (in Verdun-sur-le-Doubs)
    - Loue (near Dole)
    - Allan (in Montbéliard)
      - Bourbeuse (near Bourogne)
        Madeleine River (in Bretagne (Belfort))
        Saint-Nicolas (in Bretagne (Belfort))
  - Ouche (in Saint-Jean-de-Losne)
  - Tille (in Les Maillys)
  - Ognon (in Pontailler-sur-Saône)
- Ain (near Pont-de-Chéruy)
- Arve (in Geneva)

Tech (near Argelès-sur-Mer)

Têt (near Perpignan)

Var (near Nice)

North Sea

Escaut (near Vlissingen)
- Lys (in Ghent)
  - Deûle (in Warneton)
- Scarpe (in Mortagne-du-Nord)

Meuse
- Sambre (in Namur)
- Semois/Semoy (in Monthermé)
- Bar (near Dom-le-Mesnil)
- Chiers (in Bazeilles)

Rhine (near Leiden)
- Moselle (in Koblenz)
  - Saar/Sarre (near Konz)
  - Sûre (in Wasserbillig, does not flow through France)
    - Alzette (in Ettelbrück)
  - Orne (Lorraine) (near Mondelange)
  - Seille (near Pont-à-Mousson)
  - Meurthe (in Frouard)
- Ill (near Strasbourg)

Yser (in Nieuwpoort)

Unsorted

Anse (Allier?)
Aulne
Blavet
Bray-de-Lû
Brevenne (Saône?)
Leyre
Nonette
Selune
Trieux
Vidourle