Doubs
Doubs is a mapped river in the YearMaps hydrographic index. River courses organise settlement, agriculture and frontier-making more durably than any political boundary, and this reach is indexed against the dams, lakes and cities within its catchment.
- Feature Class
- River
- Coordinates
- 47.19°, 5.96°
About Doubs
The Doubs ( doo; French: [du] ; Arpitan: Dubs; German: Dub (obsolete)) is a 453-kilometre (281 mi) river in far eastern France which strays into western Switzerland. It is a left-bank tributary of the Saône. It rises near Mouthe in the western Jura mountains, at 946 metres (3,104 ft) and its mouth is at Verdun-sur-le-Doubs, a village and commune in Saône-et-Loire at about 175 m (574 ft) above sea level. It is the tenth-longest river in France.
The most populous settlement of the basin lies on its banks, Besançon. Its course includes a small waterfall and a 4-kilometre (2.5 mi) narrow lake.
Encyclopedic summary adapted from Wikipedia: Doubs (river) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Doubs in Depth
Course
From its source in Mouthe, France, France it flows northeast, crossing the French/Swiss border at the very southwest of Soubey, Switzerland in the Swiss Canton of Jura. It continues northeasterly in Jura Canton for roughly 20km, then turns sharply north and then southwest to return to the border into France which it crosses at the very east of Montancy, France. South-east of Montbéliard, France it adopts a southwest striation or fault of the Jura Mountains, flowing a greater distance southwest than the flow it has traced before northeast. It then flows into the Saône at Verdun-sur-le-Doubs about 20 km (12 mi) northeast of Chalon-sur-Saône.
Sections adapted from Wikipedia: Doubs (river) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Major River Dossiers
Hand-written studies of the great river systems of history.
Connected Reaches
Nearby watercourses in the same drainage network.
Water Bodies in the Catchment
Settlements Along the Reach
Hydraulic Infrastructure Nearby
Surrounding Terrain
Doubs: Quick Answers
- Where is Doubs?
- Doubs is located in France and Switzerland, at 47.1908° N, 5.9614° E.
- Are there dams on the Doubs?
- No dam on the Doubs is recorded in the YearMaps dam index, which covers major structures only.