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Bléone

The 883rd longest river in the world

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The Bléone (French pronunciation: [bleɔn], Occitan: Blèuna) is a 69.5-kilometre (43.2 mi) long river in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence département, southeastern France. Its drainage basin is 906 km2 (350 sq mi). Its source is several small streams converging near the refuge de l'Estrop, a mountain shelter in Prads-Haute-Bléone. It flows generally southwest. It is a left tributary of the Durance into which it flows between L'Escale and Les Mées.

Flows through: France.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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