Saône
| Saône (Sona) | |
| River | |
 The Saône in Lyon bi nicht.
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| Kintras | Fraunce, Swisserland |
|---|---|
| Tributaries | |
| - left | Doubs, Lanterne |
| - right | Azergues, Morgon |
| Soorce | Vioménil |
| - location | Vosges |
| - elevation | 392 m (1,286 ft) |
| - coordinates | 48°05′40″N 6°10′55″E / 48.094444°N 6.181944°E |
| Mooth | Rhône |
| - location | Lyon, France |
| - elevation | 158 m (518 ft) |
| - coordinates | 45°43′39″N 4°49′4″E / 45.72750°N 4.81778°ECoordinates: 45°43′39″N 4°49′4″E / 45.72750°N 4.81778°E |
| Lenth | 473 km (294 mi) |
| Area | 29,950 km2 (11,564 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| - average | 410 m3/s (14,479 cu ft/s) |
The Saône (French pronunciation: [soːn];[1] Arpitan Sona) is a river o eastren Fraunce. It is a richt tributary o the River Rhône. Risin at Vioménil in the Vosges depairtment, it jyns the Rhône in Lyon.
The name "Saône" derives frae that o the Gallic river goddess Souconna, which haes also been connectit wi a local Celtic tribe, the Sequanes. Monastic copyists progressively transformed "Souconna" tae "Saoconna", which ultimately gae rise tae "Saône". The ither recordit auncient names for the river wur Brigoulus an Arar.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ (in French) Jean-Marie Pierret, Phonétique historique du français et notions de phonétique générale, Peeters, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1994, p. 104.
Freemit airtins
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Navigation guide Places, ports an moorins on the Grande Saône frae Maxilly tae Lyon.
- Watterways in Fraunce
- (in French) Saone.org : French river cruisin
- The Saône on OpenStreetMap
- (in French) Saone.org Navigation an information aboot the Saône
- (in French) Dictionary o French rivers an canals on the Babel project: The Saône
- (in French) Navigable routes in Fraunce
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