Geography of Loiret

The department of Loiret forms part with the Loir-et-Cher and the Eure-et-Loir of the old historical province of the Orléanais. It is today one of the departments of the area Center. It is bordering on the departments of the the Essonne, of Seine-et-Marne, the Yonne, the Nievre, the Cher, Loir-et-Cher and Eure-et-Loir.

Relief

Loiret is a flat department of an altitude close to 100 m, located in the southern half of the Paris basin. Maximum altitude is of 273 m and the minimal one of 66 Mr.

Principal rivers

  • the the Loire crosses the department of south-east towards the west. The flow of the Loire, around Orleans, is primarily underground, sometimes causing circular collapses of the bed, the bimes . The sand banks are unstable there, which explains partially relative the bad reputation of the river in this sector. The Loire sprinkles the towns of Briare, Gien, the Sully-on-Loire, the Châteauneuf-on-Loire, the Agglomération Orleans Loire Valley, Meung-sur-Loire, Beaugency.

  • the Loiret gives its name to the department. Resurgence of the Loire, Loiret makes only 12 kilometers length. It flashes back in the Floral garden of Orleans in the district of the Source. The area between the Loire and Loiret is classified “floodplain” even if the last rising goes back to more than one hundred years.
  • Cosson sprinkles Ferté-Saint-Aubin
  • the Essonne
  • Loing sprinkles Montargis

Natural areas

  • the Loire Valley is ten kilometers of alluvia located on both sides of the the Loire

  • the Beauce located at the North-West of the river, is a calcareous plate
  • the Gâtinais located at the east of the department, around Montargis, is more undulating and rather limestone in its western and argillaceous part towards the east
  • Puisaye is located between Beauce and Gâtinais.
  • the Forest of Orleans
  • the the Sologne, constituting the essence of the south of the department, is a vast marshy forest, a long time sterile and forsaken
  • the Berry in the extreme south-east

One notes also usually Orléanais like area gathering the Loire Valley around Orleans, as well as the Forest of Orleans.

External bonds

Lists of the protected areas

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