Loir
Sign in to saveThe Loir is a long river in western France. It is a left tributary of the Sarthe. Its source is in the Eure-et-Loir department, north of Illiers-Combray. It joins the river Sarthe in Briollay, north of the city of Angers.
Key facts
- River.name
- Loir
- River.image
- Lavardin.jpg
- River.image_caption
- The Loir in Lavardin
- River.map
- Loir (rivière).png
- River.nickname
- Loir sans E ("Loir-without-E")
- River.name_etymology
- From Gaulish ledo, "flow"
- River.source1_location
- Perche
- River.mouth_location
- Sarthe
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- France
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Loir is a long river in western France. It is a left tributary of the Sarthe. Its source is in the Eure-et-Loir department, north of Illiers-Combray. It joins the river Sarthe in Briollay, north of the city of Angers.
It is indirectly a tributary of the Loire, and runs roughly parallel to it and slightly north of it for much of its length, and so might be regarded as a Yazoo type river.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Loir” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
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