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Segre

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Segre 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
41.93°, 1.16°
7.0
Coordinates: 41.9272° N, 1.1648° ECountry: SpainOpenStreetMap ↗
Segre, Spain
Segre. Image via Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).

About Segre

The Segre (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈsɛɣɾə] or [ˈseɣɾe]; French: Sègre) is a river tributary to the Ebro (Ebre in Catalan) with a basin comprising territories across three states: France, Andorra, and Spain.

The river Segre, known to Romans and Greeks as Sicoris, and to the Arabs of Al-Andalus as Nahr az-Zaytūn (نهر الزيتون, River of Olives) has its sources on the north face of the Pic del Segre or Puigmal de Segre ("Segre's Peak") in the French department Pyrénées-Orientales (historically the comarca of Alta Cerdanya), in the Catalan Pyrenees. It follows a western direction all along the Cerdanya (Cerdagne) Valley, and crosses the town Saillagouse, the Spanish exclave Llívia, and Bourg-Madame.

It enters Spain at Puigcerdà and continues west until La Seu d'Urgell, where it meets the Valira River coming from Andorra. From this point, it adopts a south-western course across the pre-Pyrenees (with several dams along its gorges) and the western plains of Catalonia. It passes through Balaguer, Lleida, and flows into the Ebro at Mequinenza.

Among its tributaries: Valira (from Andorra), Noguera Pallaresa, Noguera Ribagorzana, and Cinca.

Encyclopedic summary adapted from Wikipedia: Segre (river) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Segre: Key Facts

Key facts about Segre
Length265 km
Average discharge100 m³/s
Drainage basin22,400 km²
SourceLlo
MouthEbro
Drainage systemEbro Basin
TributariesNoguera Ribagorzana, Noguera Pallaresa, Cinca River, Carol, riu d'Angostrina, Reür, Vanéra, Set

Facts from Wikidata Q23145 (CC0).

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

Segre: Quick Answers

Where is Segre?
Segre is located in Spain, at 41.9272° N, 1.1648° E.
Are there dams on the Segre?
No dam on the Segre is recorded in the YearMaps dam index, which covers major structures only.