Tarentaine

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The Tarentaine is a French Rivière Massif Central, affluent of the Rhue and tributary of a tributary of the the Dordogne.

Geography

It takes its source with nearly 1.700 m of altitude in Auvergne, Département of the Puy-de-Dôme, in the solid mass of the Monts Gilds between Puy Ferrand and Puy Gros, in the middle of the Regional natural park of the Volcanos of Auvergne.

It crosses the plate of Artense then, on approximately five kilometers, its course separates the departments from the Puy-de-Dôme and the Cantal. It sprinkles Field-on-Tarentaine and, three kilometers further towards south-west, joined Rhue out of Right Bank.

Hydrology

December 24th, 1968, the hydrological station of Field-on-Tarentaine-Marchal (which does not function today any more) recorded a daily maximum flow of 96 m ³ /s.

Principal affluents

the Taraffet, out of left bank,
the Neuffonds (or the green Water ), out of left bank,
the Tact, out of left bank.

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