![]() ![]() The Rhône flowing through the valleys of the Swiss Alps and arriving into Lake Geneva, in Switzerland. Commercial barges may navigate during the night hours by authorisation. All operation is centrally controlled from one control centre at Châteauneuf. The 12 locks are operated daily from 5:00 a.m. The Rhône is infamous for its strong current when the river carries large quantities of water: current speeds up to 10 km/h (6.2 mph) are sometimes reached, particularly in the stretch below the last lock at Vallabrègues and in the relatively narrow first diversion canal south of Lyon. Smaller vessels (up to CEMT class I) can travel further northwest, north and northeast via the Centre-Loire-Briare and Loing Canals to the Seine, via the Canal de la Marne à la Saône (recently often called the " Canal entre Champagne et Bourgogne") to the Marne, via the Canal des Vosges (formerly called the "Canal de l'Est – Branche Sud") to the Moselle and via the Canal du Rhône au Rhin to the Rhine. The Saône, which is also canalized, connects the Rhône ports to the cities of Villefranche-sur-Saône, Mâcon and Chalon-sur-Saône. As of 2017, the part between Lyon and Sault-Brénaz is closed for navigation. Upstream from Lyon, a 149 km (93 mi) section of the Rhône was made navigable for small ships up to Seyssel. The Rhône is classified as a Class V waterway for the 325 km-long (202 mi) section from the mouth of the Saône at Lyon to the sea at Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône. By motorized vessel, the trip now takes only three days. Travelling down the Rhône by barge would take three weeks. In French, the adjective derived from the river is rhodanien, as in le sillon rhodanien (literally "the furrow of the Rhône"), which is the name of the long, straight Saône and Rhône river valleys, a deep cleft running due south to the Mediterranean and separating the Alps from the Massif Central.īefore railroads and highways were developed, the Rhône was an important inland trade and transportation route, connecting the cities of Arles, Avignon, Valence, Vienne and Lyon to the Mediterranean ports of Fos-sur-Mer, Marseille and Sète. The original German adoption of the Latin name was also masculine, der Rotten it survives only in the Upper Valais ( dialectal Rottu). German has adopted the French name but given it the feminine gender, die Rhone. This form survives in the Spanish/Portuguese and Italian namesakes, el/o Ródano and il Rodano, respectively. The Greco-Roman as well as the reconstructed Gaulish name is masculine, as is French le Rhône. Names in other languages include German: Rhone ( listen) Walser: Rotten Italian: Rodano Arpitan: Rôno Occitan: Ròse and Romansh: Rodan. The Gaulish name of the river was * Rodonos or * Rotonos (from a PIE root * ret- "to run, roll" frequently found in river names). ![]() The name Rhône continues the Latin Rhodanus name ( Greek Ῥοδανός Rhodanós) in Greco-Roman geography. The Rhône is, with the Po and Nile, one of the three Mediterranean rivers with the largest water discharge. The glacier is part of the Saint-Gotthard Massif, which gives rise to three other major rivers: the Reuss, Rhine and Ticino. ![]() The river's source is the Rhône Glacier, at the east edge of the Swiss canton of Valais. ![]() The resulting delta forms the Camargue region. At Arles, near its mouth, the river divides into the Great Rhône (French: le Grand Rhône) and the Little Rhône ( le Petit Rhône). The Rhône ( / r oʊ n/ ROHN, French: ( listen) Walser: Rotten Arpitan: Rôno Occitan: Ròse ) is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and southeastern France before discharging into the Mediterranean Sea. ![]()
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