Var (river)

	Var
	The river in Entrevaux
	Data
Water code	FR : Y6-0200
location	France , Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region
River system	Var
source	in the municipality of Entraunes , near the Col de la Cayolle ; 44 ° 14 ′ 18 ″ N , 6 ° 45 ′ 6 ″ E
Source height	approx. 1790 m
muzzle	on the municipal boundary of Nice and Saint-Laurent-du-Var in the Mediterranean Sea Coordinates: 43 ° 39 ′ 15 ″ N , 7 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ E, 43 ° 39 ′ 15 ″ N , 7 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ E;
Mouth height	0 m
Height difference	approx. 1790 m
Bottom slope	approx. 16 ‰
length	114 km
Catchment area	2820 km² (at Pont Napoléon III in Nice)
Left tributaries	see table tributaries
Right tributaries	see table tributaries
Big cities	Nice
Medium-sized cities	Saint-Laurent-du-Var
Small towns	Carros , La Gaude
	The river at the southern end of the Daluis Gorge, looking south

The Var is a river in southern France that runs in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region . It rises in the hamlet of Estenc in the municipality of Entraunes near the Col de la Cayolle , generally drains in a south-easterly direction through the Maritime Alps and flows into the Mediterranean Sea after 114 kilometers between Nice Airport and the town of Saint-Laurent-du-Var . The river runs almost entirely in the Alpes-Maritimes department and also crosses the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department over a length of about ten kilometers .

etymology

The name of the river is derived from the Ligurian word for watercourse . The Var département is named after the river, but it no longer flows through it today. The reason for this is that in 1860, when the county of Nice was annexed to France, the arrondissement of Grasse , which was previously part of the department of Var, was added to the newly formed department of Alpes-Maritimes and so the Var no longer touches its department of the same name. It is the only case in which an eponymous river does not flow through the department.

Places on the river

(Order in flow direction)

Tributaries

Left tributaries:

Cians (25 km)
Tinée (70 km)
Vésubie (45 km)

Right tributaries:

Coulomp (20 km)
Estéron (67 km)

Web links

Commons : Var River - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b geoportail.gouv.fr (1: 16,000)
↑ ^a ^b The information on the length of the river is based on the information about the Var at SANDRE (French), accessed on July 6, 2009, rounded to full kilometers.
↑ Le Var à Nice [Pont Napoléon III ] ( French ) In: Presentation de la station hydrometrique . Ministère de l'Ecologie, du Développement Durable et de l'Energie. Retrieved July 17, 2016.

[geofr-1] rtail.gouv.fr (1: 16,000)

[sandre-2] The information on the length of the river is based on the information about the Var at SANDRE (French), accessed on July 6, 2009, rounded to full kilometers.

[3] Le Var à Nice [Pont Napoléon III ] ( French ) In: Presentation de la station hydrometrique . Ministère de l'Ecologie, du Développement Durable et de l'Energie. Retrieved July 17, 2016.