Adour
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The Adour (Script error: No such module "IPA".; Template:Langx; Template:Langx) is a river in southwestern France. It rises in High-Bigorre (Pyrenees), in the commune of Aspin-Aure, and flows into the Atlantic Ocean (Bay of Biscay) near Bayonne. It is Script error: No such module "convert". long,[1] of which the uppermost ca. Script error: No such module "convert". is known as the Adour de Payolle. At its final stretch, i.e. on its way through Bayonne and a short extent upstream, the river draws the border between the Northern Basque Country and Landes regions.
Places along the river
Départements and towns along the river include:
- Hautes-Pyrénées: Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Tarbes, Maubourguet
- Gers: Riscle
- Landes: Aire-sur-l'Adour, Dax, Tarnos
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques: Bayonne
Tributaries
The main tributaries of the Adour are, from source to mouth:[1]
- Adour de Gripp (also Adour du Tourmalet, 15 km)
- Adour de Lesponne (19 km)
- Échez (64 km)
- Arros (130 km)
- Léez (56 km)
- Gabas (117 km)
- Midouze (151 km)
- Louts (86 km)
- Luy (154 km)
- Gave de Pau (191 km)
- Bidouze (82 km)
- Aran (48 km)
- Ardanabia (26 km)
- Nive (79 km)
References
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External links
- Commission Européenne—Natura 2000: Cartographie du Barthes de l'Adour—Template:In lang — maps of the Adour and Adour Basin.
- Natura 2000 Sites d'Intérêt Communautaire par la France: Barthes de l'Adour — Template:In lang
- Adour Template:Webarchive—Template:In lang — website homepage.
- European Commission: official Natura 2000 Network website— — "the centrepiece of EU nature & biodiversity policy."
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- Adour basin
- Rivers of Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Rivers of Occitania (administrative region)
- Natura 2000 in France
- Rivers of Gers
- Rivers of Hautes-Pyrénées
- Rivers of Landes (department)
- Rivers of Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Rivers of France
- Protected areas of the Pyrenees