The Gironde estuary (/ʒɪˈrɒnd/zhi-ROND,[1] US usually /dʒɪˈ-/ji-;[2][3] French: estuaire de la Gironde, [ɛstɥɛʁdəlaʒiʁɔ̃d]; Occitan: estuari de [la] Gironda, [estyˈaɾiˈdelodʒiˈɾundo]) is a navigable estuary (though often referred to as a river) in southwest France and is formed from the meeting of the rivers Dordogne and Garonne just downstream of the centre of Bordeaux. Covering around 635 km2 (245 sq mi), it is the largest estuary in western Europe.[4]
Named after the French département Gironde,
the Gironde estuary is approximately 75 km (47 mi) long and 3–12 km (2–7 miles) wide. It is subject to very strong tidal currents and great care is needed when navigating the estuary by any size or type of boat.
Since 2015, the Gironde estuary has been part of the Gironde estuary and Pertuis sea Marine Nature Park.[5]
^"Gironde". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 2020-08-01.
^"Gironde". Collins English Dictionary. HarperCollins. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
^"Gironde". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
^(C) Parc naturel marin sur l'estuaire de Gironde et sur les Pertuis Charentais : l'étude est lancée Archived 2011-05-09 at the Wayback Machine Agence des aires marines protégées/French Marine Protected Areas Agency, published 2008-07-25, accessed 2011-03-30
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The Girondeestuary (/ʒɪˈrɒnd/ zhi-ROND, US usually /dʒɪˈ-/ ji-; French: estuaire de la Gironde, [ɛstɥɛʁ də la ʒiʁɔ̃d]; Occitan: estuari de [la] Gironda...
Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France. Named after the Girondeestuary, a major waterway, its prefecture is Bordeaux. In 2019, it had a population...
sequence: Enter the Girondeestuary from the Atlantic Girondeestuary is formed by the confluence of the Dordogne and the Garonne Girondeestuary continues into...
northern Spain. It flows from the central Spanish Pyrenees to the Girondeestuary at the French port of Bordeaux – a length of 529 km (329 mi), of which...
the Gironde department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture of the Gironde department...
covering the whole area of the Gironde department of Aquitaine. The Bordeaux region is naturally divided by the GirondeEstuary into a Left Bank area which...
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de la Gironde (literally translated Forges and dockyards of the Gironde) was a French shipbuilder at Lormont near Bordeaux on the Girondeestuary. The...
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Havre, Cherbourg, Saint-Malo, Brest, Lorient, Saint-Nazaire and the Girondeestuary. In February and March 1944 three more coastal areas were declared...
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