Ourcq
Sign in to savethumb|A map of rivers and canals in and around Paris. The Ourcq (, Urc in 855) is an river in France, a right tributary of the Marne. Its source is near the village Ronchères, and its course crosses the departments of Aisne, Oise, and Seine-et-Marne. It flows southwest through the towns of Fère-en-Tardenois, La Ferté-Milon, Mareuil-sur-Ourcq, and Crouy-sur-Ourcq, finally flowing into the Marne near Lizy-sur-Ourcq. Napoleon I made use of the river as a water source, and it supplied the city of Paris until Baron Haussmann's rebuilding of Paris.
Key facts
- River.name
- Ourcq
- River.image
- Ourcq a Lizy-sur-Ourcq.jpg
- River.image_caption
- Ourcq river in Lizy-sur-Ourcq
- River.map
- Ourcq.png
- River.source1_location
- Hauts-de-France
- River.mouth_location
- Marne
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- France
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Seine-et-Marne
- Image
- Ourcq a Lizy-sur-Ourcq.jpg
- Length
- 87
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- mouth of the watercourse
- Marne
- Commons category
- Ourcq River
- watershed area
- 1100
- origin of the watercourse
- Fère-en-Tardenois
- discharge
- 2.12
- different from
- Ourcq
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Encyclopedic overview
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thumb|A map of rivers and canals in and around Paris. The Ourcq (, Urc in 855) is an river in France, a right tributary of the Marne. Its source is near the village Ronchères, and its course crosses the departments of Aisne, Oise, and Seine-et-Marne. It flows southwest through the towns of Fère-en-Tardenois, La Ferté-Milon, Mareuil-sur-Ourcq, and Crouy-sur-Ourcq, finally flowing into the Marne near Lizy-sur-Ourcq. Napoleon I made use of the river as a water source, and it supplied the city of Paris until Baron Haussmann's rebuilding of Paris.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ourcq” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations