Yonne
Yonne 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
- 47.75°, 3.59°
About Yonne
The Yonne (French: [jɔn] ) is a river in France, a left-bank tributary of the Seine. It is 292 km (181 mi) long. The river gives its name to the Yonne département. It rises in the Nièvre département, in the Morvan hills near Château-Chinon. It flows into the river Seine at Montereau-Fault-Yonne.
The Yonne flows through the following départements and towns:
Yonne: Auxerre, Migennes, Joigny, Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, Sens
The main tributaries of the Yonne are the Vanne, the Armançon, the Serein and the Cure.
Encyclopedic summary adapted from Wikipedia: Yonne (river) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Yonne in Depth
History
The river was historically used for flottage, or the floating of rafts of timber from the Morvan forest to serve the needs of the capital, Paris. It was bypassed as a rafting waterway by the Canal du Nivernais in 1841, from near its source at Corbigny down to Auxerre.
In 1834 the engineer Charles Poirée had successfully tested his design for a needle weir, and this construction technique was adopted on the river Yonne. The first lock was built in the 1840s, the others from 1861. The locks were enlarged to Freycinet standards in the late 19th century, then again to their current dimensions after World War II.
Sections adapted from Wikipedia: Yonne (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
Yonne: Quick Answers
- Where is Yonne?
- Yonne is located in France, at 47.7464° N, 3.5910° E.
- Are there dams on the Yonne?
- No dam on the Yonne is recorded in the YearMaps dam index, which covers major structures only.