Drac
The Drac is a 130-kilometre long river in southeastern France. It is a left tributary of the river Isère. It is formed at the confluence of the Drac Noir and the Drac Blanc, which both rise in the southern part of the Massif des Écrins, high in the French Alps.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in France
- Also known as: “Drac River”, “Le Drac Rivière”, and “Le Drac Torrent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sassenage and Château de Sassenage.
Sassenage
Town hall
Photo: Binnette, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sassenage is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France, lying in the north-west of the Grenoble urban area. Its historic centre is on the valley floor at the foot of a large cliff face, with housing also stretching up the lower slopes of the Vercors massif and more recent developments towards Fontaine and the Drac river.
Théâtre en Rond
Theater building
Photo: Patafisik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Théâtre en Rond is a theater building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saint-Égrève and Fontaine.
Saint-Égrève
Town
Photo: Pethrus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saint-Égrève is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. It is part of the Grenoble urban unit.
Fontaine
Town
Photo: CORLIN, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fontaine is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. Part of the Grenoble urban unit, it is the third-largest suburb of the city of Grenoble, and is adjacent to it on the west.
Polygone Scientifique
Suburb
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The Polygone Scientifique, nowadays known as Presqu'Île is a neighborhood of the city of Grenoble in France. It includes a significant number of research centers in a peninsula between Isère and Drac.
Drac
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: France, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arpitan to Welsh—“Drac” goes by many names.
- Arpitan: “Draf”
- Asturian: “Ríu Drac”
- Basque: “Drac”
- Belarusian: “Драк”
- Catalan: “Drac”
- Cebuano: “Drac”
- Chinese: “德拉克河”
- Czech: “Drac”
- Danish: “Drac”
- Dutch: “Drac”
- Esperanto: “Drac”
- Esperanto: “Drako”
- French: “Drac”
- French: “Vallée du Drac”
- German: “Drac”
- Hungarian: “Drac”
- Irish: “Drac”
- Italian: “Drac”
- Japanese: “ドラック川”
- Lithuanian: “Drakas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Drac”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Drac”
- Norwegian: “Drac”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Drac”
- Piemontese: “Drac”
- Polish: “Drac”
- Portuguese: “Drac”
- Portuguese: “Rio Drac”
- Romanian: “Râul Drac”
- Russian: “Драк (река)”
- Russian: “Драк”
- Serbian: “Драк”
- Slovenian: “Drac”
- Spanish: “Drac”
- Spanish: “rio Drac”
- Spanish: “río Drac”
- Spanish: “Río Drac”
- Venetian: “Fiume Drac”
- Welsh: “Afon Drac”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Institut Néel and St-Égrève Saint-Robert Railway Station.
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Drac”. Photo: Simdaperce, CC BY-SA 3.0.