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Lac De Jotty
Lac du Jotty is a reservoir at La Baume in Haute-Savoie, France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area .... Jotty, Lac {{HauteSavoie-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Baume
La Baume (; frp, La Bôma) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. Geography It is situated in the High Savoy between Thonon-les-Bains and Morzine. According to the French Wikipedia page, it is called 'La Baume' because the church is situated on a rock. Administration The current Mayor of La Baume is Jean-François Menoud, elected in 2020. Demography Places of interest The 'Barrage du Jotty', is a dam of the lake of Le Jotty shared by the communes of La Vernaz and La Baume. See also *Communes of the Haute-Savoie department *Leesville, Texas Leesville is an unincorporated city of 384 residents distributed over 51 square miles in the Gonzales— Guadalupe County, Texas area (), electorally known as local Precinct 13; defined by the south of its Capote Hills ("El Capote Ranch") at ..., its land majorly granted to the late Countship of La Baume References Communes of Haute-Savoie {{Hau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haute-Savoie
Haute-Savoie (; Arpitan: ''Savouè d'Amont'' or ''Hiôta-Savouè''; en, Upper Savoy) or '; it, Alta Savoia. is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France, bordering both Switzerland and Italy. Its prefecture is Annecy. To the north is Lake Geneva; to the south and southeast are Mont Blanc and the Aravis mountain range. It holds its name from the Savoy historical region, as does the department of Savoie, located south of Haute-Savoie. In 2019, it had a population of 826,094.Populations légales 2019: 74 Haute-Savoie INSEE Its subprefectures are [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reservoir
A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation. Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of water, interrupting a watercourse to form an embayment within it, through excavation, or building any number of retaining walls or levees. In other contexts, "reservoirs" may refer to storage spaces for various fluids; they may hold liquids or gasses, including hydrocarbons. ''Tank reservoirs'' store these in ground-level, elevated, or buried tanks. Tank reservoirs for water are also called cisterns. Most underground reservoirs are used to store liquids, principally either water or petroleum. Types Dammed valleys Dammed reservoirs are artificial lakes created and controlled by a dam constructed across a valley, and rely on the natural topography to provide most of the basin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dranse De Morzine
Dranse may refer to: *Dranse (Haute-Savoie), a French river in Haute-Savoie, that empties into Lake Geneva ** Dranse d'Abondance, considered as the upper part of the Dranse in Haute-Savoie ** Dranse de Morzine, a major tributary of the Dranse that begins in Morzine at the confluence of ''la dranse de sous le saix'' and ''la Dranse de la Manche'' *La Drance, a river in Switzerland that flows through Martigny, that empties into the Rhone ** Drance de Bagnes, a river in the Val de Bagnes in Valais, Switzerland, and the main tributary of La Drance (Valais) and an outflow of Lac de Mauvoisin ** Drance d'Entremont, a river in the Val d'Entremont on the north side of the Great St Bernard Pass, and a main tributary of La Drance (Valais) *** Drance de Ferret, a river in the Val Ferret in Valais, Switzerland and a tributary of the Drance d'Entremont See also * Delta de la Dranse National Nature Reserve The Delta de la Dranse National Nature Reserve is a nature reserve located in the delta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin. Its eighteen integral regions (five of which are overseas) span a combined area of and contain clos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
