The Arconce () is a long river in the

Saône-et-Loire Saône-et-Loire (; Arpitan: ''Sona-et-Lêre'') is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France. It is named after the rivers Saône and Loire, between which it lies, in the country's central-eastern part. Saône-et-Loire is B ...

department in central France. Its source is in Mary, southwest of the village. It is a right tributary of the

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 ...

, into which it flows at Varenne-Saint-Germain, northwest of the village. It flows generally southwest, but north from Anzy-le-Duc to its mouth, with numerous

meander A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the Channel (geography), channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erosion, erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank (cut bank, cut bank or river cl ...

Communes along its course

The following communes are ordered from source to mouth : Mary, Gourdon, Le Rousset, Marizy, Ballore, Mornay, Martigny-le-Comte, Viry, Charolles, Changy, Lugny-lès-Charolles, Saint-Julien-de-Civry, Nochize, Poisson, Varenne-l'Arconce,

Saint-Didier-en-Brionnais Saint-Didier-en-Brionnais () is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. Geography The Arconce flows southwestward through the middle of the commune. See also *Communes of the Sa ...

, Sarry, Anzy-le-Duc, Montceaux-l'Étoile, Versaugues, L'Hôpital-le-Mercier, Saint-Yan, Varenne-Saint-Germain

References

Rivers of France Rivers of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Rivers of Saône-et-Loire {{France-river-stub