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The Arros (; oc, Arròs) is a right tributary of the Adour, in the Southwest of
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 ar ...
. It is long.


Name

The name ''Arros'' is based on the root ''Arr-'' 'stone' and the suffix ''-os''.


Geography

The Arros rises in the Baronnies of Pyrenees, southeast of
Bagnères-de-Bigorre Bagnères-de-Bigorre (, literally ''Bagnères of Bigorre''; oc, label= Gascon, Banhèras de Bigòrra ) is a commune and subprefecture of the Hautes-Pyrénées Department in the Occitanie region of southwestern France. Name The town was kn ...
, below the Signal de Bassia (1 921 m). It flows north through a narrow valley defended by the castle of Mauvezin and the
bastide Bastides are fortified new towns built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony, Aquitaine, England and Wales during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, although some authorities count Mont-de-Marsan and Montauban, which was founded in 1144, as ...
of Tournay. It joins the Adour before it turn west, upstream from Riscle.


Départements and towns

* Hautes-Pyrénées: Bourg-de-Bigorre, Tournay, Chelle-Debat *
Gers Gers (; oc, Gers or , ) is a department in the region of Occitania, Southwestern France. Named after the Gers River, its inhabitants are called the ''Gersois'' and ''Gersoises'' in French. In 2019, it had a population of 191,377.
: Montégut-Arros, Villecomtal-sur-Arros, Plaisance.


Main tributaries

*(L) Esqueda, from Banios *(L) Luz, from Lies *(L) Arredou, in Tournay *(L) Arret Daban or Arret Devant, *(L) Arret Darré, in Gonez *(R)
Bouès The Bouès is a right tributary of the Arros, at the eastern end of the basin of the Adour, in the Southwest of France. It is long. Geography The Bouès rises near Capvern, west of Lannemezan where it is fed by the ''Neste Canal''. It flow ...
, from Capvern


References

{{Authority control Rivers of France Rivers of Gers Rivers of Hautes-Pyrénées Rivers of Occitania (administrative region)