Sèvre Niortaise

Image of the river near Niort

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The Sevre Niortaise is a river in western France. It rises with Sepvret in Deux- Sèvres and runs in an east -west direction to the Atlantic Ocean, where it empties after 158 kilometers north of La Rochelle, in the Bay of Aiguillon- sur-Mer.

It is not to be confused with the Sevre Nantaise, which has about 40 kilometers to the northwest of its source, flows in a south-north direction and flows in Nantes in the Loire. The two rivers of the same name gave the Deux-Sevres ( German: Two Sèvres ) the name.

River Landscape

The landscape of the Sevre Niortaise changes in its course a few times his character:

• In the upper reaches, to Niort, the river runs through a hilly landscape with many meanders. The slope was used by about 50 mostly decommissioned and repurposed into residences watermills.

• In Niort, the flow in a low level occurs, which is the remains of a former, since the 11th century gradually drained Atlantic Bay (Gulf of Picton ). Here the Sevre Niortaise is a broad and often wind -exposed river. It flows through and drains the Marais Poitevin with the Venise Verte and turns into a marsh river.

• From Marans she is already influenced by the tides and turns into a Tidefluss, then in the Anse d' Aiguillon, an Atlantic bay north of La Rochelle and the Île de Ré, opens.

Shipping

The Sevre Niortaise is navigable from Niort to its mouth in the Atlantic to 72 kilometers in length.

• The section between Niort and Marans is channeled, with some flux loops have been abbreviated by canals. Here the ships are also following the canalized rivers also mignon and Jeune Autise, as well as the Canal de la Vieille Autise.

• The section of Marans to the mouth is one of the seaways. For a part of this route a bypass channel, the Canal Maritime de Marans au Brault was created, a sea channel by way of which the coastal vessels up in the small seaport of Marans.

The main provision of the Sevre Niortaise was to allow the transport of timber from the Marais Poitevin you to the seaports Marans and La Rochelle. There are still some tractor busy wood sailing downstream, otherwise the transport volume is low. Even sports boats rarely stray into this area. In the marshes of the Marais Poitevin de however tours can be organized with small tourist boats.

By Crossed departments

• Deux -Sèvres
• Vendée
• Charente -Maritime

Places on the river

• Sepvret
• La Mothe -Saint- Héray
• Saint- Maixent- l'Ecole
• La Crèche
• Chauray
• Échiré
• Niort
• Coulon
• Damvix
• L' Ile- d'Elle
• Marans