Coastal
see also: Etymology of Coastal
Coastal are slopes precipice cut by the rivers in the thick layers of sediments deposited by the glaciers.
Geography
- the Côtière is a natural area of the departments of the Ain and the Rhone, prolonging by the south the plate with the thousand ponds , delimited in the west by the valley of the Saone and in the south by the Rhone. It consists of a plate delimited by two coastal, from where it draws its name, one of North-eastern direction of forty kilometers, geographically beginning with the balcony of the Cross-Russet-red and continuing until Meximieux. The other of Northern Southern direction starts from Sathonay-Village and being itself until Genay on ten kilometers.
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the Côtière also indicates an microphone-area formed by the cantons of Miribel, Montluel and Meximieux. The geographical constraint created by this barrier with the Dombes reinforced the attraction of the Lyons metropolis.