Touques River
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Touques is a small 104 km long coastal river that begins in Perche in Pays d'Auge in Normandy, France. The Touques is officially navigable up to the Pont des Belges, 800 m from its estuary.
The river flows between the communes of Deauville and Trouville-sur-Mer in North-Western Calvados and flows into the English Channel.
The Touques was diverted and straightened at the end of the 19th century and the neighbouring swamps dried and built on. Trouville-Deauville station was built on the river's former bed.
Trouville's harbour dock wall was rebuilt at the end of the 1990s due to erosion of the dock's stone wall.
See also
- Touques, a commune in the Calvados département.
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