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Key facts
- Country
- France
- Location
- Morvan
- Elevation
- 730 m (2,400 ft)
- Length
- 292 km (181 mi)
- Basin size
- 10,887 km (4,203 mi )
- Average
- 95 m /s (3,400 cu ft/s)
- Progression
- Seine → English Channel
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Encyclopedic overview
The Yonne ( French: [jɔn] ) is a river in France, a left-bank tributary of the Seine. It is 292 km (181 mi) long. The river gives its name to the Yonne département. It rises in the Nièvre département, in the Morvan hills near Château-Chinon. It flows into the river Seine at Montereau-Fault-Yonne.
The Yonne flows through the following départements and towns:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yonne” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.