Bourbince River
The Bourbince is an 82.4 km long river in the Saône-et-Loire département, in central eastern France. Its source is at Montcenis. It flows generally southwest. It is a left tributary of the river Arroux into which it flows at Digoin.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river
- Also known as: “Bourbince” and “La Bourbince Rivière”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Église Sainte-Bernadette de Digoin and Digoin canal bridge.
Église Sainte-Bernadette de Digoin
Church
Photo: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Église Sainte-Bernadette de Digoin is a church.
Digoin canal bridge
Photo: Reinhard Kraasch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Digoin canal bridge is situated 3 km southwest of Bourbince River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Digoin and La Motte-Saint-Jean.
Digoin
Village
Photo: Eponimm, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Digoin is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. The junction of the Canal du Centre and the Canal latéral à la Loire is near Digoin. Digoin is situated 2½ km southwest of Bourbince River.
La Motte-Saint-Jean
Village
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La Motte-Saint-Jean is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. La Motte-Saint-Jean is situated 3 km west of Bourbince River.
Rigny-sur-Arroux
Village
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Rigny-sur-Arroux is a commune in the east-central French department of Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The discovery in 1874 of a cache of Solutrean laurel-leaf flint points in the hamlet of Volgu, just south of the village proper, indicates that the environs of the present-day Rigny were inhabited or frequented by Paleolithic peoples around 20,000 years ago. Rigny-sur-Arroux is situated 4 km northeast of Bourbince River.
Bourbince River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Bourbince River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Venetian—“Bourbince River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Bourbince”
- Catalan: “Bourbince”
- Cebuano: “Bourbince”
- Chinese: “布班斯河”
- Dutch: “Bourbince”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر بوربينس”
- French: “Bourbince”
- French: “la Bourbince”
- German: “Bourbince”
- Irish: “Bourbince”
- Italian: “Bourbince”
- Polish: “Bourbince”
- Portuguese: “Bourbince”
- Russian: “Бурбенс”
- Russian: “Бурбенса”
- Serbian: “Bourbince”
- Serbian: “Бурбенс”
- Spanish: “Bourbince”
- Venetian: “Fiume Bourbince”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Neuzy and Le Launay.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Digoin Railway Station and Arroux.
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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 “Bourbince River”. Photo: Havang(nl), CC0.