Saône
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- Saône is also a commune in the French département of Doubs.
The Saône is a river of eastern France. It is a tributary of the River Rhône. Rising at Vioménil in the Vosges, it joins the Rhône at La Mulatière, just after Lyon.
- Length: 480 km
- Hydrographic basin: 29,950 km²
- Average flow: 410 m³/s
- Vosges (88) - Monthureux-sur-Saône
- Haute-Saône (70) - Gray
- Côte-d'Or (21) - Auxonne
- Saône-et-Loire (71) - Chalon-sur-Saône, Tournus, Mâcon
- Rhône (69) - Villefranche-sur-Saône, Caluire-et-Cuire, Lyon
Main tributaries, Right Bank (R) and Left Bank (L), downstream:
- Ognon (L) at Perrigny-sur-l'Ognon
- Tille (R) at Les Maillys
- Ouche (R) at Saint-Jean-de-Losne
- Doubs (L) at Verdun-sur-le-Doubs (in which flows the Loue)
- Dheune (R) at Allerey-sur-Saône
- Grosne (R) at Marnay
- Seille (L) at La Truchère
- Reyssouze (L) at Reyssouze
- Veyle (L) after Pont-de-Veyle
- Chalaronne (L) at Thoissey
- Morgon (R) at Villefranche-sur-Saône
- Azergues (R) at Anse (in which flows the Brévenne)
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