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Key facts
- Country
- France
- Source
- Mont Lozère
- Location
- Cévennes , France
- Coordinates
- 44°24′53″N 3°48′54″E / 44.41472°N 3.81500°E / 44.41472; 3.81500
- Elevation
- 1,550 m (5,090 ft)
- Mouth
- Garonne
- Length
- 380 km (240 mi)
- Basin size
- 15,700 km (6,100 sq mi)
- Average
- 140 m /s (4,900 cu ft/s)
- Progression
- Garonne → Gironde estuary → Atlantic Ocean
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Haute-Garonne
- Image
- Saint Mary Magdalene Church of Albi 06.jpg
- Length
- 380.2
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- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- mouth of the watercourse
- Garonne
- Commons category
- Tarn River
- watershed area
- 15753
- category for the water basin
- Category:Tarn basin
- discharge
- 140
- different from
- Tarn
- origin of the watercourse
- Mont Lozère
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Encyclopedic overview
The Tarn ( French pronunciation: [taʁn] ; Occitan: Tarn, Latin: Tarnis, possibly meaning 'rapid' or 'walled in') is a 380.2-kilometre (236.2 mi) long river in the administrative region of Occitania in southern France. It is a right tributary of the Garonne.
The Tarn runs in a roughly westerly direction, from its source at an elevation of 1,550 m (5,090 ft) on Mont Lozère in the Cévennes mountains (part of the Massif Central), through the deep gorges and canyons of the Gorges du Tarn that cuts through the Causse du Larzac, to Moissac in Tarn-et-Garonne, where it joins the Garonne, 4 km (2.5 mi) downstream from the centre of town.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tarn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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