Verdon
The Verdon is a 166.5-kilometre-long river in Southeastern France, left tributary of the Durance. Its drainage basin is 2,295 km2. The Verdon is best known for its impressive canyon: the Verdon Gorge.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in France
- Also known as: “Le Verdon Rivière” and “Verdon River”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Château de Cadarache and ITER.
ITER
Photo: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, CC BY 2.0.
ITER is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering project designed to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion power. The facility is under construction near the Cadarache research center in southern France. ITER is situated 2½ km southeast of Verdon.
WEST
The WEST, or Tungsten Environment in Steady-state Tokamak, is a French tokamak that originally began operating as Tore Supra after the discontinuation of TFR and of Petula.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saint-Paul-lès-Durance and Vinon-sur-Verdon.
Saint-Paul-lès-Durance
Village
Photo: Marianne Casamance, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saint-Paul-lès-Durance is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in Provence, southern France. The Cadarache research center for nuclear energy is located in Saint-Paul-lès-Durance and next to it the international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject ITER one of the most expensive buildings ever built and the largest scientific research collaboration in history. Saint-Paul-lès-Durance is situated 4½ km southwest of Verdon.
Vinon-sur-Verdon
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vinon-sur-Verdon is a commune in the northwestern part of the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. The town is on the left bank of the river Verdon near the Gorges du Verdon. Vinon-sur-Verdon is situated 5 km east of Verdon.
Mirabeau
Village
Photo: Yelkrokoyade, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr.
Mirabeau is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. It has several buildings from the 13th century in the centre, including the Chapelle Sainte-Madeleine. Mirabeau is situated 8 km west of Verdon.
Verdon
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Venetian—“Verdon” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Verdon”
- Bavarian: “Verdon”
- Belarusian: “Вердон”
- Belarusian: “Рака Вердон”
- Bosnian: “Verdon (rijeka)”
- Bosnian: “Verdon”
- Bulgarian: “Вердон (река)”
- Bulgarian: “Вердон”
- Catalan: “Verdon”
- Cebuano: “Verdon”
- Chinese: “弗爾東河”
- Chinese: “韦尔东河”
- Czech: “Verdon”
- Dutch: “Verdon (rivier)”
- Dutch: “Verdon”
- Finnish: “Verdon”
- French: “Verdon”
- German: “Verdon”
- Greek: “Βερντόν”
- Hungarian: “Verdon”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Verdon”
- Irish: “Verdon”
- Italian: “Verdon”
- Japanese: “ヴェルドン川”
- Ladin: “Verdon”
- Lithuanian: “Verdonas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Verdon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Verdon”
- Norwegian: “Verdon”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Verdon”
- Polish: “Verdon”
- Portuguese: “Rio Verdon”
- Russian: “Вердон”
- Serbian: “Вердон”
- Slovenian: “Verdon”
- Spanish: “Rio Verdon”
- Spanish: “Río Verdon”
- Venetian: “Fiume Verdon”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Château de Cadarache and Île de Beaumont.
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