Key facts
- Native name
- La Sarthe ( French )
- Country
- France
- Location
- Perche
- Elevation
- 250 m (820 ft)
- Length
- 313.9 km (195.0 mi)
- Basin size
- 7,864 km (3,036 sq mi)
- Average
- 80 m /s (2,800 cu ft/s)
- Progression
- ‹See Tfd› Maine → ‹See Tfd› Loire → Atlantic Ocean
- Notes
- excluding Loir
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- tributary
- Huisne
- Commons category
- Sarthe River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Maine
- watershed area
- 22185
- origin of the watercourse
- Saint-Aquilin-de-Corbion
- discharge
- 82.0
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Encyclopedic overview
The Sarthe ( French pronunciation: [saʁt] ) is a 313.9-kilometre-long (195.0 mi) river in western France. Together with the river Mayenne it forms the river Maine, which is a tributary to the river Loire.
Its source is in the Orne department, near Moulins-la-Marche. It flows generally southwest, through the following departments and towns:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sarthe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.