The Weiss is a river in the
Haut-Rhin
Haut-Rhin (); Alsatian: ''Owerelsà ss'' or '; , . is a department in the Grand Est region, France, bordering both Germany and Switzerland. It is named after the river Rhine; its name means Upper Rhine. Haut-Rhin is the smaller and less pop ...
department, northeastern France. It rises in the
Vosges Mountains
The Vosges ( , ; ; Franconian (linguistics), Franconian and ) is a range of medium mountains in Eastern France, near its France–Germany border, border with Germany. Together with the Palatine Forest to the north on the German side of the bor ...
near the
Lac Blanc and joins the river
Fecht (a tributary of the
Ill) near
Bennwihr, north of
Colmar
Colmar (; ; or ) is a city and commune in the Haut-Rhin department and Alsace region of north-eastern France. The third-largest commune in Alsace (after Strasbourg and Mulhouse), it is the seat of the prefecture of the Haut-Rhin department ...
, after a course of .
It flows through
Orbey and
Kaysersberg.
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References
Rivers of France
Rivers of Grand Est
Rivers of Haut-Rhin
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