Charente
The Charente is a 381-kilometre long river in southwestern France. Its source is in the Haute-Vienne département at Chéronnac, a small village near Rochechouart.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in France
- Also known as: “Charente River” and “La Charente Rivière”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Villa les Tourelles and Fort Lapointe.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Port-des-Barques and Saint-Nazaire-sur-Charente.
Port-des-Barques
Village
Photo: Salix, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Port-des-Barques is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France.
Saint-Nazaire-sur-Charente
Village
Photo: Piso17, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint-Nazaire-sur-Charente is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France. In the 1680s, Fort Lupin was constructed near Saint-Nazaire-sur-Charente. Saint-Nazaire-sur-Charente is situated 2½ km southeast of Charente.
Fouras
Village
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Fouras, also known as Fouras-les-Bains, is a commune in the French department of Charente-Maritime, administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It lies 34 km south of La Rochelle. Fouras is situated 4 km north of Charente.
Charente
- Categories: main stem and body of water
- Location: Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Charente” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شارنت”
- Arabic: “شرنت”
- Arabic: “شَرَنت”
- Basque: “Charente”
- Belarusian: “Шаранта”
- Bengali: “শারঁত নদী”
- Bengali: “শারঁত”
- Breton: “Charente”
- Bulgarian: “Шарант”
- Catalan: “Charanta”
- Cebuano: “Charente”
- Chinese: “夏朗德河”
- Czech: “Charente”
- Dutch: “Charente (rivier)”
- Dutch: “Charente”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر شارنت”
- Esperanto: “Charente”
- Finnish: “Charente”
- French: “Charente”
- Galician: “río Charente”
- German: “Charente”
- Greek: “Σαράντ”
- Hebrew: “שראנט (נהר)”
- Hebrew: “שראנט”
- Hungarian: “Charente”
- Irish: “Charente”
- Italian: “Charente”
- Japanese: “シャラント川”
- Kazakh: “Шаранта”
- Korean: “샤랑트강”
- Latin: “Carantonus”
- Lithuanian: “Šaranta”
- Luxembourgish: “Charente”
- Macedonian: “Шаранта”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Charente”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elva Charente”
- Norwegian: “Charente”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Charanta”
- Ossetian: “Шарантæ”
- Persian: “شرانت”
- Piemontese: “Charente”
- Polish: “Charente”
- Portuguese: “Rio Carântono”
- Portuguese: “Rio Charente”
- Romanian: “Charente”
- Russian: “Шаранта”
- Serbian: “Шарант”
- Slovenian: “Charente”
- South Azerbaijani: “شرانت چایی”
- Spanish: “Charente”
- Spanish: “rio Charente”
- Spanish: “río Charente”
- Spanish: “Río Charente”
- Swahili: “Mto Charente”
- Swedish: “Charente”
- Ukrainian: “Шаранта”
- Uzbek: “Sharanta (daryo)”
- Uzbek: “Sharanta”
- Welsh: “Afon Charente”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Fort de Piédemont and Pointe de Piédemont.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Must-Visit Destinations
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