Tinée

The Tinée is a river of France which runs entirely in the department of the the Alpes-Maritimes. It is a Affluent Var out of left bank. Its length is of 75 kilometers.

The Valley - Its Affluents

Tributary Clans
Vionène
Riou de Chaunis
Ardon
lefts:

the Guerche
the Oglione

One calls Tinée not only the Rivière but also the Vallée. The inhabitants of this valley are the Tinéens .

Common Crossings

Saint-Etienne-with-Tinée
Insulated
Saint-Saver-on-Tinée
Rimplas
Clans
Tournefort
Utelle

Hydrology

Tinée is a small extremely abundant river, like about all the rivers resulting from the Alpine areas. Its flow was observed over one 34 years period (1974-2007), with the Tower, the bridge of the Moon very close to its confluence with the VAr. The catchment area of the river is there of 705 km ², i.e. its quasi totality.

The interannual medium flow or module of the river with the Tower is of 16,7 m ³ a second, that is to say a third of the flow of the VAr.

Tinée presents typical seasonal fluctuations of a mode to dominant nival. One indeed distinguishes two periods there from rising. The high waters of autumn carry the average monthly flow on a level located between 18,8 and 17,3 m ³ a second, in October and November (maximum in October) and are followed of a fall of flow up to 10 m ³ a second in February. A second rise of the flow follows then leading to a second top - most important - in May (30,4 m ³) and June (29,6 m ³). It is due to the snow melt. Consequently of July, starts very fast fall followed of low waters of summer which leads the medium flow to its low water level of August (with a monthly average of 11,7 m ³ a second) and September (12,1 m ³), which remains extremely high, it is true. On the whole, separately the episode of snow melt, the seasonal oscillations appear important thus very little, but the fluctuations are much more marked over moreover short periods.

With the low water level, the VCN3 can fall until 4,8 m ³, in the event of dry period quinquennial, which remains high in comparison with the average of the rivers of France. Let us recall that the VCN3 is the past minimal quantity or minimal flow over three days consecutive.

As for the risings, they can be very important for a river to so reduced basin. The QJX 2 or calculated daily output of biennial rising and QJX 5 (calculated daily output of quinquennial rising) are worth respectively 100 and 150 m ³. The QJX 10 or calculated daily output of decennial rising is of 190 m ³ a second and the QJX 20 of 220 m ³. As for the QJX 50 or computed value of the daily output of raw cinquantennale, it is assembled to 270 m ³ a second (see note). That means that, for example, every two years one must expect a rising of about 100 one one day duration cubic meters, and every twenty years a rising of 220 cubic meters must statistically occur.

The recorded maximum daily output was of 290 m ³ a second on October 8th, 1977. By comparing this value with the scale of the QJX of the river, it appears that these risings were a little more important than the computed value of raw cinquantennale, and thus rather exceptional.

On the whole, Tinée is an abundant river, supplied with precipitations, they such abundant, in its basin located entire in alpine area. The Lame of water past in its catchment area is of 746 millimetres annually, which is high, largely higher than the average overall of France, but higher also than the blade of the totality of the basin of the VAr. Following what, the specific Flow of the river (or Qsp) reached the figure of 23,6 liters a second and per square kilometer of basin.

Random links: