Birs
Sign in to saveThe Birs (French: Birse) is a long river in Switzerland that flows through the Jura region and ends as a tributary to the Rhine between Basel and Birsfelden. It is the most important river of the Swiss Jura.
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- Birs
- River.image
- Birs laufen.jpg
- River.image_caption
- The Birs in Laufen
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- Country
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- Switzerland
- River.mouth
- Rhine
- River.length_km
- 73
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- Elevation
- 249
- Image
- Birs laufen.jpg
- Length
- 73
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- Birs
- watershed area
- 924
- waterbody number
- CH/443
- discharge
- 8.22
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The Birs (French: Birse) is a long river in Switzerland that flows through the Jura region and ends as a tributary to the Rhine between Basel and Birsfelden. It is the most important river of the Swiss Jura.
==Course== The Birs has its source in a spring near the Col de Pierre Pertuis at above sea level a little southwest of Tavannes in the Jura bernois. It starts as a proper river; the large amount of water is the product of an extended underground river system.
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Jura Mountains
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Switzerland
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North Sea
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Rhine
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Basel
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Canton of Basel-Landschaft
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Canton of Basel-Stadt
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Main
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Moselle
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Neckar
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Aare
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river mouth
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Delémont
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Lahn
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Ruhr
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IJssel
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Ill
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Lippe
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Dornach
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