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Le Saut du Doubs

The Saut du Doubs (French saut for fall, formerly also chute du Doubs ) is an approx. 27 meter high waterfall in the course of the Doubs , which forms the border between France and Switzerland . The waterfall is the result of a paleohistoric landslide that filled the narrow, ravine-like Doube valley about 14,000 years ago, which cuts deep into the limestone formations of the Folded Jurassic . It is located at the lower end of the approximately 400 m long stretch of river between the Lac des Brenets and the Lac de Moron reservoir . The waterfall is not immediately without water if the water level in the Lac des Brenets drops in summer and no water flows out on the surface. Then water flows into it underground, which comes back to the surface in the lower part of the river.

Franche-Comté is on the French side, in the northwest, and the Canton of Neuchâtel on the Swiss side .

From Les Brenets (Switzerland) or Villers-le-Lac (France) the waterfall can be reached on foot in about an hour or by boat on the Lac des Brenets and a short distance on foot in about 30 minutes.

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Coordinates: 47 ° 5 '14 "  N , 6 ° 42' 50"  E ; CH1903:  five hundred and forty-four thousand nine hundred sixty-nine  /  two hundred and fifteen thousand three hundred ninety