Laïta
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Laïta Laeta |
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 The Laïta west of Guidel |
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| location | France , Brittany region | |
| origin | in Quimperlé 47 ° 52 '15 " N , 3 ° 32' 43" W. |
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| Source height | approx. 2 m | |
| muzzle | between Clohars-Carnoët and Guidel in the Bay of Biscay Coordinates: 47 ° 45 ′ 48 " N , 3 ° 32 ′ 11" W 47 ° 45 ′ 48 " N , 3 ° 32 ′ 11" W |
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| Mouth height | 0 m | |
| Height difference | approx. 2 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 0.12 ‰ | |
| length | approx. 17 km | |
The Laïta ( Breton Laeta ) is an estuary about 17 kilometers long in Brittany , France . It crosses the Finistère department and forms the border to the Morbihan department for most of its course .
course
The Laïta is the estuary of the river Ellé (in Breton Ele ) and begins around the confluence of its right tributary Isole (in Breton Izol ) in the center of Quimperlé . In its entire course the Laïta is influenced by the tides , its valley belongs to the type of the Ria , referred to in Brittany as the Aber .
The Laïta flows continuously in a southerly direction and has cut deeply into the surrounding landscape. The Königsfelsen (Rocher Royal) on the right bank rises almost 70 m above the river; there are also remains of a former castle . About half of its length, the river runs on the eastern edge of a forest area (Forêt de Carnoët) . The lower course, also known as the Rivière du Pouldu , flows into the Atlantic Ocean between Le Pouldu and Guidel-Plages in the Bay of Pouldu ( Anse du Pouldu , part of the Bay of Biscay ) . Three streams flow to it, the Ruisseau de Dourdu , the Ruisseau de Pont Douar and the Ruisseau du Quinquis .
Hydrology
After severe flooding in 2001 in the urban area of Quimperlé, the entire catchment area was declared a Schéma d'aménagement et de gestion des eaux (Sage) in 2009 ; this is intended to regulate the runoff of the watercourses , improve the water quality and protect the ecology of adjacent bank areas, at the same time also of the mussel cultures near the coast . The WWF, on the other hand, launched an initiative at the end of 2010 to renature the river system into wild water .
Crossings
Three structures span the valley: on the southern outskirts of Quimperlé the bridge of the motorway-like Route Nationale N 165 and a railway viaduct built in 1862 , plus another road bridge near the former monastery of Saint-Maurice-de-Carnoët on the route Départementale D 224 / D 162 between Clohars-Carnoët and Guidel.
In the summer season a passenger ferry operates between the marina (port de plaisance) of Le Pouldu and Guidel-Plages.
The landscape as an art motif
The surroundings inspired the Gauguin pupil Paul Sérusier for his painting Les Laveuses à la Laïta, près du Pouldu ( The Laundresses on the Laïta, near Le Pouldu , see illustration on the right) from 1892. Even Gauguin himself, who during this time repeatedly stayed in the nearby artists' colony of Pont-Aven and lived with Jacob Meijer de Haan in Le Pouldu from 1889 to 1893, often went for walks along the Laïta. Today there is also a Paul-Gauguin-Weg near the river on the western bank.
Even earlier, around the mid-19th century, Paul Huet had created La Laïta à marée haute dans la forêt de Quimperlé ( The Laïta at high tide in the Quimperlé forest) . Even later, artists took up motifs around the river, for example Henri Rivière (Voiliers sur la Laïta / Sailing boats on the Laïta , 1899) or, in the 21st century, André Méhu (Chez François au port du Bas Pouldu / Bei François am Hafen by le Bas Pouldu) .
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Origin geoportail.gouv.fr
- ↑ estuary geoportail.gouv.fr
- ↑ a b The Laïta is not included in the French water database sandre.fr , because according to the logic there it represents the estuary of the River Ellé. The information about the length of the Laïta was therefore taken from fr.wiki .
- ↑ see this message ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Article from Ouest-France
- ↑ Illustration of the road bridge at structurae.de
- ^ Wilfried Krusekopf / Eberhard Homann: Bretagne. Reise Know-how, Bielefeld 2010 8th , ISBN 978-3-8317-1945-7 , p. 410
- ↑ see this article ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Illustration of the Huet painting on artnet.fr
- ^ Illustrations of the Rivière and Méhu paintings ; le Bas-Pouldu is the old name of Guidel-Plages.
