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The Erdre (; ) is a long river in western France, right tributary to the Loire. Its source is in the Maine-et-Loire department, near La Pouëze. It flows through the departments Maine-et-Loire and Loire-Atlantique. The Erdre meets the Loire in the city of Nantes. Other towns on the Erdre, going downstream, are Candé, Riaillé, Nort-sur-Erdre and Sucé-sur-Erdre.

Key facts

River.name
Erdre
River.image
Nantes Erdre-02.jpg
River.map
Erdre.png
River.image_caption
The in Nantes
River.source1_location
Maine-et-Loire
River.mouth_location
Loire
River.subdivision_type1
Country

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
river
Country
France
Elevation
9
Image
Nort-sur-Erdre Hafen.jpg
Length
97.4
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mouth of the watercourse
Loire
Commons category
Erdre
tributary
Hocmard
watershed area
974
discharge
2.5
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The Erdre (; ) is a long river in western France, right tributary to the Loire. Its source is in the Maine-et-Loire department, near La Pouëze. It flows through the departments Maine-et-Loire and Loire-Atlantique. The Erdre meets the Loire in the city of Nantes. Other towns on the Erdre, going downstream, are Candé, Riaillé, Nort-sur-Erdre and Sucé-sur-Erdre.

South of Nort-sur-Erdre, the river flows through reclaimed marshland, and is up to a kilometer wide at the Plaine de Mazerolles near Sucé-sur-Erdre. At the Plaine de la Poupiniere, the Nantes-Brest canal joins the Erdre.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Erdre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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