Cure (river)
Cure | |
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Location | |
Country | France |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Morvan |
Mouth | |
• location | Yonne |
• coordinates | 47°40′31″N 3°41′19″E / 47.67528°N 3.68861°E |
Length | 113 km (70 mi) |
Basin features | |
Progression | Yonne→ Seine→ English Channel |
The Cure (French pronunciation: [kyʁ] ) is a 113 km (70 mi) long river in central France, a right-bank tributary of the Yonne.[1] Its source is in Gien-sur-Cure, in the Morvan hills. It flows into the Yonne at Cravant near Vermenton.
Communes crossed
It crosses the following departments and towns: (from its source to its confluence):
- Anost (source, Saône-et-Loire)
- Planchez (Nièvre)
- Gien-sur-Cure (Nièvre)
- Moux-en-Morvan (lac des Settons, Nièvre)
- Montsauche-les-Settons (lac des Settons, Nièvre)
- Gouloux (Nièvre)
- Saint-Brisson (Nièvre)
- Dun-les-Places (Nièvre)
- Quarré-les-Tombes (Yonne)
- Marigny-l'Eglise (lac du Crescent, Nièvre)
- Saint-Germain-des-Champs (Yonne)
- Chastellux-sur-Cure (Yonne)
- Saint-André-en-Morvan (Nièvre)
- Domecy-sur-Cure (Yonne)
- Pierre-Perthuis (Yonne)
- Foissy-les-Vezelay (Yonne)
- Saint-Père (near Vézelay, Yonne)
- Asquins (Yonne)
- Montillot (Yonne)
- Givry (Yonne)
- Blannay (Yonne)
- Sermizelles (Yonne)
- Voutenay-sur-Cure (Yonne)
- Saint-Moré (Yonne)
- Arcy-sur-Cure (Yonne)
- Bessy-sur-Cure (Yonne)
- Lucy-sur-Cure (Yonne)
- Vermenton (Yonne)
- Accolay (Yonne)
- Cravant (Yonne)
References