River
Arroux
132 km from source to mouth · France.
FranceFlows into Loire
In numbers
Length
132km
Average flow
34m³/s
Basin
3,174km²
Drop
98m
from 320 m to 222 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
132 km of river and 16 stops on the way: 8 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 320 m
- 0 kmArnay-le-Duc1,986 people
- 21 kmArroux Viaduct
- 26 kmDréetributary
- 36 kmAutun18,283 people
- 37 kmTernintributary
- 43 kmCelletributary
- 56 kmBraconnetributary
- 57 kmÉtang-sur-Arroux1,929 people
- 58 kmMesvrintributary
- 87 kmToulon-sur-Arroux1,655 people
- 104 kmGueugnon8,486 people
- 105 kmPont Émiland-Gauthey de Gueugnon
- 126 kmLa Motte-Saint-Jean1,203 people
- 126 kmDigoin8,941 people
- 127 kmBourbincetributary
- 130 kmMolinet1,178 people
- 132 kmLoireat 222 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in France
At the mouth it carries 34 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 73 seconds. It drops from 320 m to 222 m, 0.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,174 km², about the size of LU. 1.0 million people live in it. Highest water: from November to February. Its dams hold back little of its water (6.1% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- AutunLargest city on its banks · 18,283 people
- Dole Tavaux Airport (DLE)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 86 km from the cityCar hire at LYS airport (Colombier-Saugnieu, Rhône)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water6 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Arroux, month by month
Highest water: from November to February
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 37 m³/s in the lowest month to 180 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Arroux: the basin in numbers
12,478 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.0millionpeople live in the basin
- 83/km²people per km²
- 603maverage altitude of the basin
- 786mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.4°Caverage air temperature
- 11%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 0.2km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 34% Forest
- 15% Cropland
- 32% Pasture
- 4% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Arroux: what you find on the way
- 11WeirsSeuil de Rince Bouteille and 10 more
- 6LocksRigole d'Arroux, Canal de Roanne à Digoin and 4 more
- 3Boat rampsPoint d'embarquement et de débarquement isolé de canoë kayak
- 2MarinasPort de plaisance de Digoin, Halte Nautique de la Fontaine Saint-Martin
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.9 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Arroux in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
LoireFrance1,006 km840 m³/sTributaries (10)
Also: Bourbince, Ternin, Celle, Drée, Mesvrin, Braconne, Méchet, Ruisseau de Breuil, Ruisseau des Pontins, Ruisseau le Trévouze
Nearby
Rivers nearby
SwitzerlandWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q702925) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
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