Arve
The Arve is a river in France, and Switzerland. A left tributary of the Rhône, it is 108 km long, of which 9 km in Switzerland. Its catchment area is 1,976 km2, of which 80 km2 in Switzerland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in France and Switzerland, tributary of the Rhône
- Also known as: “Arve Rivière”, “L’Arve”, “L’Arve Rivière”, and “L’Arve Torrent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Musée d’ethnographie de Genève and MAMCO.
Musée d’ethnographie de Genève
Museum
Photo: Torbjorn Toby Jorgensen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Musée d'ethnographie de Genève is one of the most important ethnographic museums in Switzerland.
MAMCO
Museum
Photo: Romano1246, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The MAMCO is the contemporary art museum of Geneva, which opened in 1994. The building is a former factory building, with 3000 m2 of exhibition space, it is the largest contemporary art museum of Switzerland.
Pont de Saint-Georges sur l’Arve
Bridge
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Pont de Saint-Georges sur l’Arve is a bridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Les Acacias and Geneva.
Les Acacias
Quarter
Photo: MHM55, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Les Acacias is a district shared between the cities of Geneva and Carouge in Switzerland, located on the left bank of the Arve.
Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland's second-most populous city and the largest French-speaking city in Switzerland, is one of the world's major centres of international diplomacy, having served as the site of the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross since its foundation in 1863.
Arve
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Venetian—“Arve” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Arve”
- Arpitan: “Ârva”
- Asturian: “Ríu Arve”
- Belarusian: “Арв”
- Belarusian: “Рака Арв”
- Bulgarian: “Арв”
- Catalan: “Arve”
- Cebuano: “Arve”
- Chinese: “阿尔沃河”
- Czech: “Arve”
- Danish: “Arve”
- Dutch: “Arve”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر ارڤ”
- Esperanto: “Arve”
- Finnish: “Arve”
- French: “Arve”
- Georgian: “არვი”
- German: “Arve”
- Hungarian: “Arve”
- Indonesian: “Arve”
- Irish: “Arve”
- Italian: “Arve”
- Japanese: “アルヴ川”
- Korean: “아르브강”
- Ladin: “Arve”
- Lithuanian: “Arvas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Arve”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elva Arve”
- Norwegian: “Arve”
- Polish: “Arve”
- Portuguese: “Rio Arve”
- Russian: “Арв”
- Serbian: “Арв”
- Slovenian: “Arve”
- Spanish: “Arve”
- Spanish: “Río Arve”
- Swedish: “Arve”
- Venetian: “Fiume Arve”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Jonction and La Coulouvrenière.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sciences II and Sciences III.
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