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Canal De Haute Perche
The Haute Perche Canal ( ), despite its title, is a natural river, the , that has been slightly canalised to improve navigation between its mouth in the Bay of Bourgneuf at the port town of Pornic and the upstream settlements of , Chauvé and Arthon-en-Retz. It is located in the Pays de Retz in the Loire-Atlantique department and the Pays de la Loire region. It has also been known as the ' since the 16th century and was sometimes called the '. Historically, it was called the ''Rouet'', after the wheels of the water mills in the port.. Etymology The is a village on the waterway between the towns of Arthon and Chauvé in the commune of Chaumes-en-Retz and was at times the navigable limit of the waterway. Geography The Canal de Haute Perche is located entirely in the Pays de Retz, south of the Loire in Loire-Atlantique. It extends over the municipalities of Pornic, Clion-sur-Mer, Chauvé and Chaumes-en-Retz. Hydrography The Haute Perche Canal drainage basin extends east of Porn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chauvé
Chauvé (; Gallo: ''Chauvàè'', ) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. Population See also *Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department The following is a list of the 207 communes of the Loire-Atlantique department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025): References Communes of Loire-Atlantique Pornic Agglo Pays de Retz {{LoireAtlantique-geo-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Water Mill
A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower. It is a structure that uses a water wheel or water turbine to drive a mechanical process such as milling (grinding), rolling, or hammering. Such processes are needed in the production of many material goods, including flour, lumber, paper, textiles, and many metal products. These watermills may comprise gristmills, sawmills, paper mills, textile mills, hammermills, trip hammering mills, rolling mills, and wire drawing mills. One major way to classify watermills is by wheel orientation (vertical or horizontal), one powered by a vertical waterwheel through a gear mechanism, and the other equipped with a horizontal waterwheel without such a mechanism. The former type can be further subdivided, depending on where the water hits the wheel paddles, into undershot, overshot, breastshot and pitchback (backshot or reverse shot) waterwheel mills. Another way to classify water mills is by an essential trait about their loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Precambrian
The Precambrian ( ; or pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pC, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon. The Precambrian is so named because it preceded the Cambrian, the first period of the Phanerozoic Eon, which is named after Cambria, the Latinized name for Wales, where rocks from this age were first studied. The Precambrian accounts for 88% of the Earth's geologic time. The Precambrian is an informal unit of geologic time, subdivided into three eons ( Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic) of the geologic time scale. It spans from the formation of Earth about 4.6 billion years ago ( Ga) to the beginning of the Cambrian Period, about million years ago ( Ma), when hard-shelled creatures first appeared in abundance. Overview Relatively little is known about the Precambrian, despite it making up roughly seven-eighths of the Earth's history, and what is known has largely been discovered from the 1960s onwards. The Precambrian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drainage Basin
A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, the drainage divide, made up of a succession of elevated features, such as ridges and hills. A basin may consist of smaller basins that merge at river confluences, forming a hierarchical pattern. Other terms for a drainage basin are catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, river basin, water basin, and impluvium. In North America, they are commonly called a watershed, though in other English-speaking places, " watershed" is used only in its original sense, that of the drainage divide line. A drainage basin's boundaries are determined by watershed delineation, a common task in environmental engineering and science. In a closed drainage basin, or endorheic basin, rather than flowing to the ocean, water converges toward the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carte D'état-major
Carte may refer to: People * Alexander Carte (1805–1881), Irish British zoologist * Anto Carte (1886–1954), Belgian painter * Helen Carte (1852–1913), Scottish British businesswoman * Richard Carte (1808–1891), British flute-maker * Samuel Carte (1652–1740), English antiquarian * Thomas Carte (1686–1754), English historian * Omer Carte Qalib (1930–2020), Somalian politician * Carte Goodwin Carte Patrick Goodwin (born February 27, 1974) is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States Senate, United States senator from West Virginia in 2010. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he w ... (born 1974), U.S. politician * Carte Said (born 1997), Italian soccer player Other uses * CARTE Museum (Cartographic Acquisition Research Teaching and Exhibition), Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA * Carte network, a French resistance network See also * Deidre LaCarte, Canadian dancer * Julio Lacarte Muró (1918–2016), Uruguayan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bassin (plan D'eau)
Bassin may refer to: People * Elieser Bassin (1840–1898), British Israelist * Mark Bassin, British geographer * Sherwood Bassin (born 1939), Canadian ice hockey executive Other uses * The Grand Bassin, the largest body of open water along the Canal du Midi See also * Basin (other) * Bassein (other) Bassein may refer to: India * Vasai, a city in Maharashtra state, India; known as Bassein during Portuguese rule ** Treaty of Bassein (1534) ** Treaty of Bassein (1802) ** Military history of Bassein ** Vasai Assembly constituency * Bassein ... * Bassins, Switzerland {{Disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falleron (river)
The Falleron () is a French coastal river forming the boundary between the departments of Vendée and Loire-Atlantique and flowing into the Bay of Biscay and Atlantic Ocean via the Bay of Bourgneuf. Geography The Falleron is 52 km long, (in French.) from its source at an altitude of , in the town of Grand'Landes in the Vendée department flowing west to its mouth in the Bay of Bourgneuf at the . Hydrography The main tributaries of the Falleron upstream of Machecoul, from upstream to downstream are (), whose confluence on the right bank lies to the east of the eponymous town of Falleron and which marks the start of the boundary between Loire-Atlantique on the right bank and Vendée on the left. To the west of Falleron town () joins on the left bank. At Saint-Etienne-de-Mer-Morte the ( joins on the left bank and defines a further section of the departmental boundary. At Machecoul, the long ' ("Supply canal") or ' ("Irrigation canal"), constructed before the end of the 18th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marais Breton
The Marais breton (, "Breton Marsh"; or Marais breton-vendéen) is a ''zone géographique humide'' (humid geographic zone) along France's Atlantic coast. It marks the border between two traditional French provinces, Brittany and Poitou, and extends between two French departments, Loire-Atlantique and Vendée, both of which included in the administrative region of Pays de la Loire. The Marais breton is protected by levees and dunes, stabilized by the pines of the forest of Pays de Monts. Some areas, such as Bouin are below sea level and were once subject to storm surges. A valve system blocking salt water from entering portions of the marsh was also developed to accommodate the marsh waters to agriculture. Culture The Marais Breton has a tradition of music and dance similar to its neighbors the Bocage vendéen and Upper Brittany, but it also has its own local instrument, the veuze bagpipe, and its own dance, the Maraîchine. Fauna and flora Per the Natura 2000, the Marais ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenu
Tenu (also known as Tenughat) is a census town in the Petarwar CD block in the Bermo subdivision of the Bokaro district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. It is located at the foot of Tenughat Dam, 42 km from Bokaro Steel City, the district headquarters, Geography Location Tenu is located at . Area overview Bokaro district consists of undulating uplands on the Chota Nagpur Plateau with the Damodar River cutting a valley right across. It has an average elevation of above mean sea level. The highest hill, Lugu Pahar, rises to a height of . The East Bokaro Coalfield located in the Bermo-Phusro area and small intrusions of Jharia Coalfield make Bokaro a coal rich district. In 1965, one of the largest steel manufacturing units in the country, Bokaro Steel Plant, operated by Steel Authority of India Limited, was set-up at Bokaro Steel City. The Damodar Valley Corporation established its first thermal power station at Bokaro (Thermal). The long, high earthfill dam with compo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acheneau
The Acheneau () is a French river in the Loire-Atlantique Department, in the Pays de la Loire region, a tributary on the left bank of the Loire which is fed by the Lac de Grand-Lieu. Geography Beginning at the north of the Lac de Grand-Lieu, the Acheneau is joined from the south by the at Saint-Léger-les-Vignes. After passing through Port-Saint-Père, it passes Cheix-en-Retz and the confluence of the Blanche, also from the south, then reaches the outskirts of Rouans, from which it takes the 4 km route of the Buzay canal which, after crossing the , joins the Loire at the end of a 29.8 km route. Before the construction of the Buzay canal, the current “Vue étier” formed its natural course between Vue (source) and Rouans (confluence). Municipalities and cantons crossed Entirely in the department of Loire-Atlantique, the Acheneau crosses the nine municipalities of Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu (origin), Bouaye, Saint-Mars-de-Coutais, Saint-Léger-les-Vignes, Port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lac De Grand-Lieu
Lac de Grand-Lieu () is a lake located to the southwest of Nantes, in the Loire-Atlantique, France, and almost entirely in Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu. At an elevation of , its surface area is , making it the largest lake in France in winter, but second after Lac du Bourget in summer. The lake is classified as a Local Nature Reserve, and use of boats on the lake are prohibited for all but a small number of licensed professional fishermen. Tourism Due to the lake classification, as a protected area, its access is restricted. Navigation on the lake is prohibited; only seven professional fishermen have been granted specific authorisation to do so. Because of its shallow topography, and its wild vegetation, the lake is difficult to access. Except during the winter floods, it is only accessible from a few locations, such as at Bouaye in the north, at Pierre Aigüe in Saint-Aignan-Grandlieu and la Chevrolière in the east. For visitors, a museum has been created to present the lak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blanche (Loire-Atlantique)
The Blanche () is a tributary of the left bank of the Acheneau and thus a sub-tributary of the Loire. Etymology The name, Blanche, meaning white in French, is thought to derive from the presence of white chalk in the water from the lime kilns around Arthon-en-Retz. Another hypothesis is that the name derives from the white mist over its related marshland. Geography La Blanche is located entirely in the Pays de Retz, south of the Loire in the department of Loire-Atlantique. It covers the municipalities of Chaumes-en-Retz ( Arthon-en-Retz and Chéméré), Saint-Hilaire-de-Chaléons, Cheix-en-Retz and Rouans. Hydrography The Blanche basin is bordered by the Acheneau basins to the north, the to the east, the Falleron to the south and the Canal de Haute Perche The Haute Perche Canal ( ), despite its title, is a natural river, the , that has been slightly canalised to improve navigation between its mouth in the Bay of Bourgneuf at the port town of Pornic and the upstream settl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
