Key facts
- Country
- France
- Location
- French Prealps
- Length
- 110.6 km (68.7 mi)
- Basin size
- 1,663 km (642 sq mi)
- Average
- 20 m /s (710 cu ft/s)
- Progression
- ‹See Tfd› Rhône → Mediterranean Sea
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Wikidata facts
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- watershed area
- 1640
- Commons category
- Drôme River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Rhône
- discharge
- 20
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Drôme ( French pronunciation: [dʁom] ; Occitan: Droma), a river in southeastern France, a left tributary of the Rhône. It is 110.6 km (68.7 mi) long, and has a watershed of 1,663 km. Its source is in the western foothills of the Alps, near the village Valdrôme. It flows into the Rhône near Loriol-sur-Drôme, between Valence and Montélimar. Tributaries of the Drôme include the Bez (or Bès), the Roanne and the Gervanne.
The Drôme flows through the following départements and towns:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Drôme” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.