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At Arles, near its mouth, the river divides into the Great Rhône (French: le Grand Rhône) and the Little Rhône (le Petit Rhône). The resulting delta forms the Camargue region. The river's source is the Rhône Glacier, at the east edge of the Swiss canton of Valais.
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 ...
Lirac (French pronunciation:) is a wine-growing Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) in the department of Gard situated in the low hills along the right bank of the Rhône river in the southern Rhône wine region of France. It is named after the village of Lirac.
The interim name of the new administrative region was a hyphenated placename, composed of the historic region of Auvergne, the river Rhône and the French Alps (Alpes). The same name has been chosen as the definitive name, which was officialized by the Conseil d'État on 28 September 2016. [12]
The Rhône Glacier (German: Rhonegletscher, Walliser German: Rottengletscher, French: glacier du Rhône, Italian: ghiacciaio del Rodano) is a glacier in the Swiss Alps and the source of the river Rhône and one of the primary contributors to Lake Geneva in the far eastern end of the Swiss canton of Valais.
The Massif Central is an old massif, formed during the Variscan orogeny, consisting mostly of granitic and metamorphic rocks.It was powerfully raised and made to look geologically younger in the eastern section by the uplift of the Alps during the Paleogene period and in the southern section by the uplift of the Pyrenees.
The historic French province of Provence, located in the southeast corner of France between the Alps, the Mediterranean, the Rhône river and the upper reaches of the Durance river, was inhabited by Ligures beginning in Neolithic times; by the Celts from about 900 BC, and by Greek colonists from about 600 BC. [1]
The agglomeration is based on four alluvial terraces ranging on the left bank of the Rhone: The lowest, which is closest to the river, where the districts of fishermen and sailors were. The intermediate terrace, safe from the floods of the river, which grew into the historic city, first within its walls, then expanded outside.