Cantache
| Cantache | ||
 Plan d'Eau de la Cantache |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | FR : J70-0300 | |
| location | France , Pays de la Loire and Brittany regions | |
| River system | Vilaine | |
| Drain over | Vilaine → Atlantic Ocean | |
| source | in the municipality of Saint-Pierre-des-Landes, 48 ° 17 ′ 36 ″ N , 1 ° 3 ′ 14 ″ W |
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| Source height | approx. 149 m | |
| muzzle | on the municipal boundary of Saint-Jean-sur-Vilaine and Pocé-les-Bois Coordinates: 48 ° 6 ′ 56 ″ N , 1 ° 17 ′ 57 ″ W 48 ° 6 ′ 56 ″ N , 1 ° 17 ′ 57 ″ W |
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| Mouth height | approx. 49 m | |
| Height difference | approx. 100 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 2.8 ‰ | |
| length | approx. 36 km | |
| Left tributaries | Pérouse | |
| Right tributaries | Palet | |
| Reservoirs flowed through | Étang de Châtillon , Plan d'Eau de la Cantache | |
The Cantache is a river in France , in the departments of Mayenne and Ille-et-Vilaine of regions Pays de la Loire and Brittany runs.
course
It rises in the municipality of Saint-Pierre-des-Landes under the name Ruisseau de Champlin and changes its name several times in the upper reaches. It generally drains in a south-westerly direction and is dammed up at Châtillon-en-Vendelais to form the Étang de Châtillon . From here on it will definitely be named Cantache . Below Montreuil-sous-Pérouse, it also endows the Plan d'Eau de la Cantache reservoir and, after a total of around 36 kilometers, flows into the Vilaine as a right tributary on the municipal boundary of Saint-Jean-sur-Vilaine and Pocé-les-Bois .
Places on the river
(Order in flow direction)
