River
Vézère
211 km from source to mouth · France.
FranceFlows into Dordogne
In numbers
Length
211km
Average flow
59m³/s
Basin
3,736km²
Drop
443m
from 492 m to 49 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
211 km of river and 11 stops on the way: 9 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmPuy Penduat 492 m
- 0 kmMeymac2,389 people
- 62 kmArgentat3,112 people
- 142 kmSouillac3,947 people
- 192 kmTursac346 people
- 193 kmLes Eyzies1,134 people
- 205 kmCampagne416 people
- 209 kmAlles-sur-Dordogne380 people
- 211 kmLe Bugue Bridge
- 211 kmLe Bugue2,663 people
- 211 kmLimeuil342 people
- 211 kmLe Bugue Footbridge
- 211 kmDordogneat 49 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 59 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 42 seconds. It drops from 492 m to 49 m, 2.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,736 km², about the size of CV. 279,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to February. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (18% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- SouillacLargest city on its banks · 3,947 people
- Brive Souillac airport (BVE)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 16 km from the cityCar hire at BVE airport (Brive)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water47 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Vézère, month by month
Highest water: from December to February
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 60 m³/s in the lowest month to 340 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
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The basin
Vézère: the basin in numbers
9,575 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 279,000people live in the basin
- 29/km²people per km²
- 589maverage altitude of the basin
- 852mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.1°Caverage air temperature
- 35%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 1.2km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 54% Forest
- 5% Cropland
- 28% Pasture
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
Vézère: what you find on the way
- 11Weirs
- 7WaterfallsCascade des Berles, Cascade de Neyrat, Cascade de la Pomeyrine and 4 more
- 30Boat rampsPlan d'eau de Vayrac, Port Muzard and 28 more
- 10River beachesPlage du Stade, Les Vidissières, Foussac and 7 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.8 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Vézère 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.
2mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (2)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Mont Bessou4.4 km away976m
- Puy Pendu5.6 km away973m
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
Vézère in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
DordogneFrance483 km450 m³/sTributaries (14)
Also: Coly, Couze, Soudaine, Elle, Brézou, Bradascou, Loyre, Petite Vézère, Logne, Rujoux, Grande Beune, Cern, Madrange
In the same basin
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q118167) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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