River
Argens
116 km from source to mouth · France.
FranceFlows into Mediterranean Sea
In numbers
Length
116km
Average flow
1,800m³/s
Basin
2,600km²
Drop
219m
from 219 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
116 km of river and 13 stops on the way: 10 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 219 m
- 0 kmBarjols2,619 people
- 30 kmCarcès2,767 people
- 31 kmCaramytributary
- 37 kmBresquetributary
- 48 kmLe Thoronet1,649 people
- 66 kmVidauban7,931 people
- 67 kmTaradeau1,754 people
- 73 kmLes Arcs5,910 people
- 90 kmLe Muy8,474 people
- 90 kmNartubytributary
- 98 kmRoquebrune-sur-Argens12,485 people
- 103 kmPuget-sur-Argens6,943 people
- 112 kmFréjus53,098 people
- 116 kmMediterranean Seaat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in France
At the mouth it carries 1,820 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 1.4 seconds. It drops from 219 m to 0 m, 1.9 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,600 km², about the size of LU. 291,000 people live in it. Highest water: from November to December; lowest: from June to August. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- FréjusLargest city on its banks · 53,098 people
- Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 46 km from the cityCar hire at NCE airport (Nice, Alpes-Maritimes)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water5 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe2 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Argens, month by month
Highest water: from November to December
Lowest water: from June to August. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 9.9 m³/s in the lowest month to 110 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Argens: the basin in numbers
2,757 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 291,000people live in the basin
- 105/km²people per km²
- 332maverage altitude of the basin
- 778mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 12.9°Caverage air temperature
- 8%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 71% Forest
- 4% Cropland
- 7% Pasture
- 5% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Argens: what you find on the way
- 14WeirsLa Cascade and 13 more
- 5WaterfallsLes chutes du Grand Baou, Chutes du Caramy and 3 more
- 2Canoe put-ins
- 1MarinasPort Fréjus 2
- 5River beachesPlage de la Cave ds Fées, plage base nature, Plage des Esclamandes and 2 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Argens in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
31beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
4mountains at the sourcePeakyas
7islands off the mouthIslandyas
Beaches (31)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Plage de Pampelonne20 km away24.1°C
- Plage Veillat3.6 km away24.4°C
- Plage de l'Homme Mort6.9 km away24.4°C
- Plage de la Raguette22 km away24.4°C
- Plage du Grand Boucharel3.5 km away24.4°C
- Calanque de la Rabiou15 km away · cove24.1°C
- Calanque des Corailleurs2.1 km away · cove24.4°C
- Plage de la Galiotekm 8624.4°C
23 more on CoastyaOpen Coastya ↗
Mountains at the source (4)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Mont Major9.6 km away
- Montagne d'Artigues11 km away
- Le Grand Blé5.1 km away
- Les Trois Croix13 km away
Islands off the mouth (7)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- île Sainte-Marguerite29 km away2.1km²
- île Saint-Honorat28 km away0.4km²
- île d'Or9.4 km away
- île des Vieilles14 km away
- îlot Saint-Ferréol29 km away
- Le Lion de mer3.5 km away
- Le Lion de terre4.2 km away
Islandyas is coming soonOpen Islandyas ↗
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Argens in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (14)
Also: Caramy, Reyran, Aille, Nartuby, Eau Salée, Blavet, Endre, Bresque, Cauron, Florieye, Couloubrier, Ribeirotte, Grande-Garonne, Cassole
Nearby
Rivers nearby
ItalyWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q644839) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Coastya, Peakyas, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
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