Key facts
- Native name
- La Maine ( French )
- Country
- France
- Location
- Sarthe and Mayenne
- Elevation
- ±25 m (82 ft)
- Length
- 11.5 km (7.1 mi)
- Basin size
- 22,194 km (8,569 sq mi)
- Average
- 128 m /s (4,500 cu ft/s)
- Progression
- ‹See Tfd› Loire → Atlantic Ocean
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Encyclopedic overview
The Maine ( French pronunciation: [mɛːn] ) is a river, a tributary of the Loire, 11.5 km (7.1 mi) long, in the Maine-et-Loire département in France.
The confluence of the Mayenne (left, bottom) and Sarthe (left, top) rivers north of Angers. The Maine is on the right.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.