Mère (Vendée)

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Mère
Data
Water code FR :  N7114000
location France , Pays de la Loire region
River system Sèvre Niortaise
Drain over Vendée  → Sèvre Niortaise  → Atlantic Ocean
source on the municipal boundary of Breuil-Barret and Saint-Pierre-du-Chemin
46 ° 40 ′ 30 ″  N , 0 ° 39 ′ 37 ″  W
Source height approx.  210  m
muzzle at Mervent in the Vendée coordinates: 46 ° 31 ′ 10 ″  N , 0 ° 45 ′ 24 ″  W 46 ° 31 ′ 10 ″  N , 0 ° 45 ′ 24 ″  W.
Mouth height approx.  30  m
Height difference approx. 180 m
Bottom slope approx. 5.5 ‰
length 33 km
Catchment area approx. 175 km²
Right tributaries Petit Fougerais
Reservoirs flowed through Barrage de Pierre Brunne, Barrage de Mervent
The river at Vouvant

The river at Vouvant

The Mère is a river in France that runs in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region . It rises under the name Ruisseau de Garbaudières , near the hamlet of the same name, Les Garbaudières , on the municipal boundary of Breuil-Barret and Saint-Pierre-du-Chemin , generally drains south-west to south and, after 33 kilometers, flows into the backwater of the Barrage de at Mervent Mervent as a right tributary to the Vendée .

Places on the river

(in flow order)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source geoportail.gouv.fr
  2. ↑ estuary geoportail.gouv.fr
  3. ↑ a b c The information on the length of the river is based on the information about the Mère at SANDRE (French), accessed on April 12, 2013, rounded to full kilometers.