The Aura () is a tributary of the Sinn River in

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Name

The name Aura originates from the

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''Uraha''. The word ''ur'' meant

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, and the word ''aha'' meant stream,Wolf-Armin Reitzenstein:''Lexikon bayerischer Ortsnamen. Herkunft und Bedeutung''. meaning it was a river where Aurochs lived. The river gives the Gemeinde Aura im Sinngrund its name.

Course

The river originates in the in a valley near Aura im Sinngrund and flows in a southerly direction. In Fellen, it meets its largest tributary, the Fellach. At its mouth, the Aura then turns to the east. The mouth of the river is in Burgsinn, where it flows into the Flutgraben, an anabranch of the Sinn

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Rivers of Bavaria Rivers of the Spessart Rivers of Germany {{Bavaria-river-stub

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