The Orne ( French: [ɔʁn] ) is a river in Normandy , within northwestern France . It is 170 km (110 mi) long. It discharges into the English Channel at the port of Ouistreham . Its source is in Aunou-sur-Orne , east of Sées . Its main tributaries are the Odon and the Rouvre .
3-616: Aunou-sur-Orne ( French pronunciation: [onu syʁ ɔʁn] , literally Aunou on Orne ) is a commune in the Orne department in northwestern France . Aunou-sur-Orne along with another 69 communes is part of a 20,593 hectare, Natura 2000 conservation area, called the Haute vallée de l'Orne et affluents . In 1811 Aunou-sur-Orne absorbed the neighbouring commune of Saint-Cenery-près-Séez (sometimes spelled Saint-Cénery-près- Sées or Saint-Céneri-près-Sées). The coimmune contains
6-693: The area known as Suisse Normande . Its longest tributaries are, from source to mouth: The name of the Orne in Normandy, which is referred to as the Olinas by Ptolemy , is a homonym of Fluvius Olne, the Orne saosnoise in Sarthe, which Xavier Delamarre traces back to the Celtic olīnā (elbow). The waters of the Orne are typically moderately turbid and brown in colour. Its pH level has been measured at 8.5 at
9-475: The source for the River Orne . Nicolas-Jacques Conté (4 August 1755 – 6 December 1805) was a French painter, balloonist, army officer, and inventor of the modern pencil. He was born at Saint-Céneri-près-Sées. This Orne geographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Orne (river) The Orne flows through the following departments and towns: It also flows through
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