Key facts
- Country
- France
- Location
- Plateau de Lannemezan
- Length
- 175.4 km (109.0 mi)
- Basin size
- 1,227 km (474 mi )
- Average
- 7.06 m /s (249 cu ft/s)
- Progression
- ‹See Tfd› Garonne → Gironde estuary → Atlantic Ocean , ‹See Tfd› Gers → ‹See Tfd› Garonne → Gironde estuary → Atlantic Ocean
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Hautes-Pyrénées
- Image
- FR-32-Auch01.JPG
- Length
- 175.4
- Connects with
- Canal de la Neste
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- Commons category
- Gers River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Garonne
- watershed area
- 1700
- discharge
- 717.0
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- origin of the watercourse
- Canal de la Neste
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Encyclopedic overview
The Gers ( French: [ʒɛʁ(s)] ) is a 175-kilometre (109 mi) long river in southern France, left tributary of the Garonne.
Its source is in the foothills of the Pyrenees, near Lannemezan. It flows north through the départements Hautes-Pyrénées, Gers and Lot-et-Garonne. It flows into the Garonne in Layrac, near Agen. The city Auch lies along the river Gers. It gives its name to the Gers département.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gers” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.