Jabron (Durance)

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Jabron
The Jabron with the Pont de Peipin from 1666

The Jabron with the Pont de Peipin from 1666

Data
Water code FR :  X1100500
location France , regions Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
River system Rhône
Drain over Durance  → Rhône  → Mediterranean
source in the municipality of Les Omergues,
44 ° 10 ′ 26 ″  N , 5 ° 34 ′ 7 ″  E
Source height approx.  1090  m
muzzle just south of Sisteron in the Durance coordinates: 44 ° 9 ′ 33 ″  N , 5 ° 57 ′ 20 ″  E, 44 ° 9 ′ 33 ″  N , 5 ° 57 ′ 20 ″  E
Mouth height approx.  440  m
Height difference approx. 650 m
Bottom slope approx. 18 ‰
length approx. 36 km
Right tributaries Biaisse

The Jabron is a mountain river in France that runs through the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regions. It rises in the municipality of Les Omergues , generally drains in an easterly direction and flows into the Durance as a right tributary after 36 kilometers just south of Sisteron . On its way, the Jabron mainly crosses the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department , only at Montfroc does it enter the Drôme department of the neighboring Rhône-Alpes region over a length of about one kilometer .

Places on the river

Web links

Commons : Jabron  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b geoportail.fr (1: 16,000)
  2. ↑ a b The information on the length of the river is based on the information on the Jabron at SANDRE (French), accessed on January 30, 2011, rounded to the nearest kilometer.