Sauer
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The Sauer (German and Luxembourgish, , ) or Sûre (French, ) is a river in Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. A left tributary of the Moselle, its total length is .
Key facts
- River.name
- Sauer
- River.map
- Sûre.png
- River.map_caption
- Path of the Sauer
- River.image
- Fluss_Sauer.jpg
- River.image_caption
- The Sauer in Echternach
- River.mapframe
- yes
- River.mapframe zoom
- 8
- River.subdivision_type1
- Countries
- River.subdivision_type2
- Location
- River.subdivision_type3
- Reference no.
- River.subdivision_name3
- DE: 262
- River.source1_location
- Source region: In the Ardennes on the soil of Libramont-Chevigny near the Planchipont farm (Belgium)
- River.source1_elevation
- ca.
- River.mouth_location
- Between Wasserbilligerbrück (Germany) and Wasserbillig (Luxembourg) into the Moselle
- River.mouth_elevation
- ca.
- River.river_system
- Moselle
- River.discharge1_location
- at its mouth
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Rhineland-Palatinate
- Image
- Vaux-sur-Sûre, Planchipont (101).jpg
- Length
- 173
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- partially coincident with
- Belgium–Luxembourg border
- Commons category
- Sûre
- mouth of the watercourse
- Moselle
- category for the water basin
- Category:Sauer basin
- watershed area
- 4259
- impounded by
- Esch-sur-Sûre Dam
- native label
- Sauer
- lake on watercourse
- Upper Sûre Lake
- different from
- Sauer
- slope
- 2.2
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The Sauer (German and Luxembourgish, , ) or Sûre (French, ) is a river in Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. A left tributary of the Moselle, its total length is .
Rising near Vaux-sur-Sûre in the Ardennes in southeastern Belgium, the Sauer flows eastwards and becomes the border with Luxembourg near Martelange. It forms the border between Belgium and Luxembourg for north of Martelange. West of Esch-sur-Sûre it flows into an artificial lake, the Upper Sûre Lake created by the Esch-sur-Sûre Dam, which gives its (French) name to the Luxembourgish commune of Lac de la Haute-Sûre. After flowing through Ettelbruck and Diekirch, the Sauer forms the border between Luxembourg and Germany for the last of its course, passing Echternach before emptying into the Moselle in Wasserbillig. The rivers Wiltz, Alzette, White Ernz, Black Ernz, Our, and Prüm are tributaries.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sauer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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