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Lac Des Settons
The Lac des Settons (Lake of the Settons) is a reservoir in the Nièvre department, France, Patrimoine du Morvan (in French). with a surface area of . Supplied mainly by the River Cure, it is situated in the heart of . The lake is found south of the town Montsauche-les-Settons. It is one of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nièvre
Nièvre () is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, central-east France. Named after the river Nièvre, it had a population of 204,452 in 2019.Populations légales 2019: 58 Nièvre INSEE Its prefecture is . Covering an area 6,817 square kilometres (2,632 sq mi), Nièvre is landlocked between six other departments: Yonne to the north, Côte-d'Or to the east, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artificial Lake
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 of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cure (river)
The Cure () is a long river in central France, a right-bank tributary of the Yonne. Its source is in Gien-sur-Cure, in the Morvan hills. It flows into the Yonne at Cravant near Vermenton. Communes crossed It crosses the following departments and towns: (from its source to its confluence): * Anost (source, Saône-et-Loire) * Planchez (Nièvre) * Gien-sur-Cure (Nièvre) * Moux-en-Morvan ( lac des Settons, Nièvre) * Montsauche-les-Settons ( lac des Settons, Nièvre) * Gouloux (Nièvre) * Saint-Brisson (Nièvre) * Dun-les-Places (Nièvre) * Quarré-les-Tombes (Yonne) * Marigny-l'Eglise ( lac du Crescent, Nièvre) * Saint-Germain-des-Champs (Yonne) * Chastellux-sur-Cure (Yonne) * Saint-André-en-Morvan (Nièvre) * Domecy-sur-Cure (Yonne) * Pierre-Perthuis (Yonne) * Foissy-les-Vezelay (Yonne) * Saint-Père (near Vézelay, Yonne) * Asquins (Yonne) * Montillot (Yonne) * Givry (Yonne) * Blannay (Yonne) * Sermizelles (Yonne) * Voutenay-sur-Cure (Yonne) * Sai ... [...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] |
Departments Of France
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (french: département, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level (" territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes. Ninety-six departments are in metropolitan France, and five are overseas departments, which are also classified as overseas regions. Departments are further subdivided into 332 arrondissements, and these are divided into cantons. The last two levels of government have no autonomy; they are the basis of local organisation of police, fire departments and, sometimes, administration of elections. Each department is administered by an elected body called a departmental council ( ing. lur.. From 1800 to April 2015, these were called general councils ( ing. lur.. Each council has a president. Their main areas of responsibility include the management of a number of social and welfare allowances, of junior high school () buildings and technica ... [...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] |
Morvan Regional Natural Park
Morvan Regional Natural Park (French: ''Parc naturel régional du Morvan'') is a protected area of woodlands, lakes and traditional farmland in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of central France. It covers a total area of and extends through four different departments with the majority being in Nièvre. The area was officially designated as a regional natural park in 1970. The ''maison du parc'' (main visitors center) is located in the small commune of Saint-Brisson. It maintains one of the park's six natural history museums (''Écomusée de Morvan''). Member communes The park includes 117 communes as well as five associated partner communes. * Aisy-sous-Thil • Alligny-en-Morvan • Anost • Antully • Arleuf • Arnay-le-Duc • Asquins • Autun • Avallon * Bard-le-Régulier • Bazoches • Beauvilliers • Blanot • Blismes • Brassy • Brazey-en-Morvan • Bussières * Cervon • Chalaux • Champeau-en-Morvan • Chastellux-sur-Cure • Château-Chino ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montsauche-les-Settons
Montsauche-les-Settons () is a commune in the Nièvre department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in central France. Montsauche-les Settons is completely rural, the commune composed of a settlement, half of Lac des Settons (lake), and a few dispersed hamlets. Geography The commune of Montsauche-les Settons is centrally located in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in the Morvan mountainous massif, at the heart of the protected natural area of the Parc naturel régional du Morvan. The settlement, located 3 km from the lake, contains all the businesses and essential services of the area. The lake area's economy is organized around tourism, while the principal economic activity of the surrounding hamlets is raising cattle and Christmas tree farming. The associated historical place names of the area are: Bordering Communes See also * Communes of the Nièvre department *Parc naturel régional du Morvan Morvan Regional Natural Park (French: ''Parc naturel régional du M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yonne (river)
The Yonne () is a river in France, a left-bank tributary of the Seine. It is 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: *Nièvre: Château-Chinon, Clamecy *Yonne: Auxerre, Migennes, Joigny, Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, Sens *Seine-et-Marne: Montereau-Fault-Yonne The main tributaries of the Yonne are the Vanne, the Armançon, the Serein and the Cure. History The river was historically used for ''flottage'', or the floating of rafts of timber from the Morvan forest to serve the needs of the capital, Paris. It was bypassed as a rafting waterway by the Canal du Nivernais in 1841, from near its source at Corbigny down to Auxerre. In 1834 the engineer Charles Poirée had successfully tested his design for a needle weir, and this construction technique w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timber Rafting
Timber rafting is a method of transporting felled tree trunks by tying them together to make rafts, which are then drifted or pulled downriver, or across a lake or other body of water. It is arguably, after log driving, the second cheapest means of transporting felled timber. Both methods may be referred to as timber floating. Historical rafting Unlike log driving, which was a dangerous task of floating separate logs, floaters or raftsmen could enjoy relative comfort of navigation, with cabins built on rafts, steering by means of oars and possibility to make stops. On the other hand, rafting requires wider waterflows. Timber rafts were also used as a means of transportation of people and goods, both raw materials ( ore, fur, game) and man-made. Theophrastus (''Hist. Plant.'' 5.8.2) records how the Romans imported Corsican timber by way of a huge raft propelled by as many as fifty masts and sails. This practice used to be common in many parts of the world, especially Nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, Fashion capital, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called Caput Mundi#Paris, the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France Regions of France, region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
