river
A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside Subterranean river, caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of ...
in western
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...
located in the departments of
Indre-et-Loire
Indre-et-Loire () is a department in west-central France named after the Indre River and Loire River. In 2019, it had a population of 610,079.Centre-Val de Loire
Centre-Val de Loire (; ,In isolation, ''Centre'' is pronounced . ) or Centre Region (, ), as it was known until 2015, is one of the eighteen Regions of France, administrative regions of France. It straddles the middle Loire Valley in the interior ...
) and
Maine-et-Loire
Maine-et-Loire () is a department in the Loire Valley in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France. It is named after the two rivers, Maine and the Loire. It borders Mayenne and Sarthe to the north, Loire-Atlantique to the west, Indr ...
(
Pays de la Loire
Pays de la Loire (; but can also mean 'Lower Loire') is one of the eighteen administrative regions of France, located on the country's Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. It was created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of influence for its capital an ...
). It is a tributary of the river
Loire
The Loire ( , , ; ; ; ; ) is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world. With a length of , it drains , more than a fifth of France's land, while its average discharge is only half that of the Rhône.
It rises in the so ...
on the right side. It flows into the Loire in
Sainte-Gemmes-sur-Loire
Sainte-Gemmes-sur-Loire (, literally ''Saint-Gemmes on Loire'') is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France.
Population
See also
* Communes of the Maine-et-Loire department
The following is a list of the 176 communes ...
, near
Angers
Angers (, , ;) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the Prefectures of France, prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Duchy of Anjou, Anjou until the French Revolution. The i ...
. Its longest tributaries are the Lathan and the Couasnon. The largest towns on the Authion are
Bourgueil
Bourgueil () is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France.
Population
Bourgueil wine
Bourgueil is an ''appellation d'origine contrôlée'' (AOC) for wine in the Loire Valley region, and produces primarily red wine from ...
,
Mazé-Milon
Mazé-Milon () is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department of western France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 and consists of the former communes of Mazé and Fontaine-Milon.Brain-sur-l'Authion,
Trélazé
Trélazé () is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Maine-et-Loire department
The following is a list of the 176 communes of the Maine-et-Loire department of France
F ...
and
Les Ponts-de-Cé
Les Ponts-de-Cé () is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France.
Les Ponts-de-Cé is a suburb of Angers.
History
In September 1432, during the Hundred Years' War, the routiers of Rodrigo de Villandrando, in the pay of Ge ...