Ligoure
| Ligoure | ||
 Estuary of the Ligoure (left) into the Briance (right) |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | FR : L0554100 | |
| location | France , Nouvelle-Aquitaine region | |
| River system | Loire | |
| Drain over | Briance → Vienne → Loire → Atlantic Ocean | |
| source | in the municipality of La Roche-l'Abeille 45 ° 35 ′ 7 ″ N , 1 ° 17 ′ 46 ″ E |
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| Source height | approx. 414 m | |
| muzzle | on the municipal boundary of Saint-Jean-Ligoure and Le Vigen in the Briance coordinates: 45 ° 44 ′ 14 " N , 1 ° 18 ′ 44" E 45 ° 44 ′ 14 " N , 1 ° 18 ′ 44" E |
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| Mouth height | approx. 229 m | |
| Height difference | approx. 185 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 8.8 ‰ | |
| length | 21 km | |
| Reservoirs flowed through | Étang de Freyssinet | |
The Ligoure is a river in France that runs in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region . It rises in the municipality of La Roche-l'Abeille , just on the border with Saint-Priest-Ligoure , drains through some small reservoirs generally in a northerly direction through the landscape of the Limousin and flows after around 21 kilometers at the municipal boundary of Saint-Jean -Ligoure and Le Vigen as the left tributary into the Briance .
Places on the river
(Order in flow direction)
- Freyssinet , municipality of Saint-Priest-Ligoure
- Saint-Priest-Ligoure
- Saint-Jean-Ligoure
- Ligoure , municipality of Le Vigen