Lot-et-Garonne
Lot-et-Garonne (, oc, Òlt e Garona) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France. Named after the rivers Lot and Garonne, it had a population of 331,271 in 2019.department in southwestern
France
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. It stands on the ''voie verte'' cycle path along the
Canal de Garonne
Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flow und ...
.
Geography
The
Séoune
The Séoune (french: la Séoune) is a long river in the Lot, Tarn-et-Garonne and Lot-et-Garonne '' départements'', southwestern France. Its source is at Sauzet. It flows generally southwest. It is a right tributary of the Garonne into which it ...
forms part of the commune's eastern border, then flows into the
Garonne
The Garonne (, also , ; Occitan, Catalan, Basque, and es, Garona, ; la, Garumna
or ) is a river of southwest France and northern Spain. It flows from the central Spanish Pyrenees to the Gironde estuary at the French port of Bordeaux – a ...
, which forms the commune's southeastern and southwestern borders.