
The Eau Rouge is a small, stream in the
Belgian province
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of
Liège
Liège ( ; ; ; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the Liège Province, province of Liège, Belgium. The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east o ...
. It is a right tributary of the
Amblève.
It starts in the
Hautes Fagnes
The High Fens (; ; ), which were declared a nature reserve in 1957, are an upland area, a plateau region in Liège Province, in the east of Belgium and adjoining parts of northwestern Germany, between the Ardennes and the Eifel highlands. The Hig ...
("High
Fen
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s") and ends in Challes, near
Stavelot
Stavelot (; ; ) is a town and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium.
The municipality consists of the following districts: Francorchamps and Stavelot.
It is best known as the home of Spa-Francorchamps Circuit a ...
in the river
Amblève. The French words mean "red water", and the river gets its name from the reddish coloration of the stones and riverbed due to the presence of iron-oxide deposits. The Eau Rouge is particularly
geomorphologically
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interesting, as it appears to be using the old
Warche
The Warche is a river in eastern Belgium (province of Liège).
From its source at Losheimergraben on the Belgian- German border, it flows roughly west about , across the south of the Hautes Fagnes region.
It passes through the town of Malmedy, ...
river stream bed.
The Eau Rouge has been a border river for several periods in its existence, including an administrative boundary under the
Roman Empire
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between
Cologne
Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city pr ...
and
Tongeren
Tongeren (; ; ; ) is a city and former municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg, in the southeastern corner of the Flemish region of Belgium. Tongeren is the oldest town in Belgium, as the only Roman administrative capital wit ...
, and the state border between the
Netherlands
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and
Prussia
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from 1815 to
1839
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The first photograph of the Moon is taken, by French photographer Louis Daguerre.
* January 6 – Night of the Big Wind: Ireland is struck by the most damaging cyclone in 300 years.
* January 9 – ...
and then between Belgium and Prussia from 1839 to 1919.
Eau Rouge and the F1 circuit
The Eau Rouge has lent its name to the
Eau Rouge corner, one of the best-known corners in
Formula One
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race tracks in the
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
The Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps (), informally referred to as Spa, is a Race track, motor-racing circuit located in Francorchamps, Stavelot, Wallonia, Belgium, about southeast of Spa, Belgium, Spa. It is the current venue of the Formula One ...
motor racing circuit, at the point where the track crosses it for the first time.
External link
Site of the Walloon regional archives. Flooding of the Eau Rouge in January 1995.
References
Rivers of the Ardennes (Belgium)
Rivers of Belgium
Rivers of Liège Province
Malmedy
Stavelot
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