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Water Body Attractions In Occitanie

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Occitanie or Occitania is an administrative region of France that was created on January 1st, 2016 from former French regions Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées. France's Conseil d'État approved Occitanie as the new name of the region on September 28th 2016, effective from September 30th 2016.The modern administrative region is named after the cultural and historical region of Occitania, which covers a larger area. The modern administrative area covers a similar area to that ruled by the Counts of Toulouse in the 12th and 13th centuries. The banner of arms of those counts, known colloquially as the Occitan cross, is used by the modern region and...
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Water Body Attractions In Occitanie

  • 1. Lac de Villefort Villefort
    Lac de Villefort is a lake in Lozère, France. At an elevation of 580 m, its surface area is 1.27 km².
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  • 5. Canal de Brienne (Le) Toulouse
    The Canal du Midi is a 240 km long canal in Southern France . Originally named the Canal royal en Languedoc and renamed by French revolutionaries to Canal du Midi in 1789, the canal was at the time considered one of the greatest construction works of the 17th century.The canal connects the Garonne to the Étang de Thau on the Mediterranean and along with the 193 km long Canal de Garonne forms the Canal des Deux Mers, joining the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. The canal runs from the city of Toulouse down to the Étang de Thau near the Mediterranean. Strictly speaking, Canal du Midi refers to the portion initially constructed from Toulouse to the Mediterranean — the Deux-Mers canal project aimed to link together several sections of navigable waterways to join the Mediterranean and the Atl...
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  • 8. Garonne Toulouse
    Haute-Garonne is a department in the southwest of France named after the Garonne river. Its main city and capital is Toulouse.
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  • 10. Lac d'Aignan Aignan
    Lac de Grand-Lieu is a lake located to the south-west of Nantes, in the Loire-Atlantique, France, and almost entirely in Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu. At an elevation of 5 m, its surface area is 62.92 km², making it the largest lake in France in winter, but second after Lac du Bourget in summer. The lake is classified as a Local Nature Reserve, and use of boats on the lake are prohibited for all but a small number of licensed professional fishermen.
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  • 12. Lac D'oo Oo
    The Lac d'Oô is an artificial lake in the Pyrenees with an area of 42 hectares located at an altitude of 1507 m in the commune of Oô.
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  • 15. Gave de Pau Gavarnie
    The Gave de Pau is a river of south-western France. It takes its name from the city Pau, through which it flows. The river is 183 kilometres long, and its source is at the Cirque de Gavarnie in the Pyrenees mountains. The Gave de Pau joins the Gave d'Oloron in Peyrehorade to form the about 10-kilometre long Gaves réunis , which is a left tributary of the Adour. The Gaves réunis is often considered to be part of the Gave de Pau. Its main tributaries are the Béez, the Néez, the Ouzoum and the Ousse. The Gave de Pau flows through the following départements and towns: Hautes-Pyrénées: Argelès-Gazost, Lourdes. Pyrénées-Atlantiques: Pau, Orthez. Landes: Peyrehorade.
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