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Urtene

The 883rd longest river in the world

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The Urtene, also called the Urtenenbach is a river in the Swiss Canton of Bern. It is an 18 km (11 mi) long tributary of the river Emme. It drains a portion of the central Bernese Midland and belongs to the catchment area of the Rhine. The Drainage basin of Urtene is about 96 km2 (37 sq mi). The yearly average flow at the mouth of the river is 2.03 m3/s (72 cu ft/s).

Flows through: Switzerland.

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

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