Souleuvre

The Souleuvre is a French river of Basse-Normandie, affluent of the Vire (Right Bank).

Geography

It is born on the commune of Estry, 9 kilometers in the east of the Bény-Scrap-metal and arrives at the Tourneur where, after having received water of several small affluents, it runs at the bottom of a rather picturesque steepsided valley of East-West orientation. This furrow is dug in the Synclinal Cambrien of the zone bocaine . Its landscape is typical valleys of the North-East of the Armorican Massif and Bocage virois.

It joint with water of the Transfers, this one arriving of the south, with the northern limit of the communes of Carville and Holy-Marie-Laumont. With this confluence, Transfers it adopts this East-West orientation and enters the site of the throats of Vire .

Affluents

The principal ones are of Right Bank:
  • Blandouit (grown bigger of Rubec, whose valley prolongs that of Souleuvre and throats of Vire)
  • Courbançon
  • Roucamps

Crossed cities

Exclusively rural river, Souleuvre crosses or borders the communes of Montchamp, Saint-Charles-with-Percy, Montchauvet, the Bény-Scrap-metal, Saint-Pierre-Tarentaine, the Turner, Carville, the Tool bag-Harang, Campeaux.

The valley of Souleuvre

  • the Viaduct of Souleuvre: work of Gustave Eiffel, his deck steel was destroyed in 1970. The pillars are used today as supports at a platform of Saut with the rubber band

  • the bridge of Bull (2 km downstream from the viaduct): bridge taken by the 11th British armor-plated division, whose emblem was a bull ( The Black Bull ) at the time of the Opération Bluecoat on July 31st, 1944. He miraculeusement had been miraculeusement forgotten allied bombardments and German monitoring.

  • the throats of Transfers: they are in fact a prolongation of the valley of Souleuvre.

Environment

The basin of Souleuvre is a site selected Natura 2000, in particular for its population of crayfish to white legs. Its basin is however for this reason less important than that of the Druance, neighbor but in the basin of the Orne. Notable presence also of chubs.

See too

Related articles

  • the Viaduc of Souleuvre
  • the Transfers
  • Liste of the Norman rivers

External bonds

  • the card of Souleuvre on the site of the PIKE PERCH
  • the card of the basin of Souleuvre on the Natura site 2000

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