Key facts
- Country
- France
- Location
- Aunou-sur-Orne
- Elevation
- 240 m (790 ft)
- Length
- 170 km (110 mi)
- Basin size
- 2,932 km (1,132 sq mi)
- Average
- 27.5 m /s (970 cu ft/s)
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Wikidata facts
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- tributary
- Baize
- Commons category
- Orne River (Northwestern France)
- mouth of the watercourse
- English Channel
- watershed area
- 2932
- origin of the watercourse
- Aunou-sur-Orne
- discharge
- 27.5
- basin country
- France
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Encyclopedic overview
The Orne ( French: [ɔʁn] ) is a river in Normandy, within northwestern France. It is 170 km (110 mi) long. It discharges into the English Channel at the port of Ouistreham. Its source is in Aunou-sur-Orne, east of Sées. Its main tributaries are the Odon and the Rouvre.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Orne” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.