The Gers is a river in France. It flows through the Hautes-Pyrénées, Gers and Lot-et-Garonne departments, in the Occitanie and Nouvelle-Aquitaine regions. The Gers department is named after this river.
The river's source is in the Pyrenees. It is a left tributary of the Garonne river. In general, it flows from south to north.
Geography
The Gers river has a length of 175.4 kilometres (109.0 miles) and a drainage basin with an area of 1,227 square kilometres (474 square miles).[1]
Course
The source of the Gers is on the Plateau de Lannemezan, in the Lannemezan commune (Hautes-Pyrénées), at an altitude of 613 metres (2,011 feet).[2]
The Gers passes through the departments and towns of:
- Hautes-Pyrénées : Lannemezan, Monléon-Magnoac
- Gers : Chélan, Panassac, Masseube, Seissan, Pavie, Auch, Preignan, Montestruc-sur-Gers, Fleurance, Lectoure
- Lot-et-Garonne : Astaffort, Layrac
The Gers river flows through 48 communes and 11 cantons.
Finally, it flows into the Garonne river to the south of Agen (Lot-et-Garonne), in the Layrac commune, at 45 metres (148 feet) of altitude.[3]
Main tributaries
- Left tributaries
- Gèze - 11.7 kilometres (7.3 miles)[4]
- Cédon - 18.6 kilometres (11.6 miles)[5]
- Sousson - 33.8 kilometres (21.0 miles)[6]
- Talouch - 14 kilometres (8.7 miles)[7]
- Ousse - 10.6 kilometres (6.6 miles)[8]
- Lauze - 16.3 kilometres (10.1 miles)[9]
- Auchie - 15.7 kilometres (9.8 miles)[10]
- Right tributaries
- Cier - 13.6 kilometres (8.5 miles)[11]
- Arçon - 18.1 kilometres (11.2 miles)[12]
- Aulouste - 20.6 kilometres (12.8 miles)[13]
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