River of the East

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It runs out of west in is, initially on the communal territory of Holy-Rose, then mark the limit between Holy-Rose and Saint-Benoît, communes respectively located at the south and the north of the river.

It takes its source with 2.350 meters of altitude close to the Piton of the Furnace on a plate of collapse called river bed of the East (of former French make = source). After having curved on this plate, in the middle of the forests of tamarins, of the swings and natural savannas, the various arms which give him birth join to fall brutally from a vertiginous cliff of more than 500 meters called the broken River of the East .

With the foot of this cliff, the river is réalimentée by sources which come in fact from the infiltration from water in the thickness from the volcanic solid mass. It circulates then at the bottom of escarpées throats and very deep and widens only towards its mouth where it deposits formed alluvia of large rock blocks.

The mode of flow is very irregular, because the area is at the same time affected by a very porous geological structure and phenomenal tropical rains: the time world records of precipitations there are recorded. Calm long periods alternate with brutal and furious risings.

Part of water of the River of the East are diverted with semi-course towards immense tanks, then brought by pipe pressure until a hydroelectric factory at the edge of the Indian Ocean. Turbinate water is rejected into the sea.

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One of the bridges which cross the river close to its mouth was built starting from 1888 by Ferdinand Arnodin. Suspended bridge anchored on the ground, it was longest of the world when it was delivered in 1894. Today, this Suspended bridge of the River of the East is not any more opened with the road traffic and is used today as walk; it was indeed doubled and replaced by a bridge in Béton in 1979, located builds slightly upstream.

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