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In French, the adjective derived from the river is rhodanien, as in le sillon rhodanien (literally "the furrow of the Rhône"), which is the name of the long, straight Saône and Rhône river valleys, a deep cleft running due south to the Mediterranean and separating the Alps from the Massif Central.
View of the Rhone Valley from the top of the Tain-l'Hermitage vineyard. The Vallée du Rhône (French pronunciation: [vale dy ʁon]) of Rhône Valley is a region located on either side of the Rhône, downstream from Lyon, in the south-east of France. [1] The city of Valence in Drôme is considered the heart of the valley.
Rhone Glacier at Gletsch in 1900. Rhone watershed upstream from Lake Geneva. The Rhône rises in the St. Gotthard massif in the Swiss Alps. [1] It is formed by the melting of the Rhône glacier, and flows through the long valley of the same name through the canton of Valais, marking the border with the canton of Vaud in the Chablais region before joining Lake Geneva in the commune of Port ...
A service to monitor the river was created, the Service spécial de la Durance, in order to study the hydrology of the river, using the kilometre-long divisions from 1868 between the confluence with the Verdon with that with the Rhône. This division allows surveying and mapping of the land at risk.
In the Rhône valley, the meeting of the mild humid southern Mediterranean air masses with the colder northern air mass sometimes causes particularly violent thunderstorms and snowstorms. In the northern hills near Tain-l'Hermitage (15 km north of Valence ), the climate is a mixture of oceanic and semi-continental climates.
Vienne (French: ⓘ; Arpitan: Vièna) is a town in southeastern France, located 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Lyon, at the confluence of the Gère and the Rhône.It is the fourth-largest commune in the Isère department, of which it is a subprefecture alongside La Tour-du-Pin.
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Vernaison ( French pronunciation: [vɛʁnɛzɔ̃] ) is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France .
The various AOC wines of the Rhône Valley region are produced by over 6,000 wine growing properties including 1,837 private wineries and 103 cooperatives. [4] Those vineyard owners which do not vinify their wines themselves deliver their grapes in bulk either to a winemaking cooperative, for example Cellier des Dauphins, or sell them to one of the 51 négociants (wine producers and merchants ...