Furan (also written as: Furens ) is a 39.3 km long river in central France ( Loire department), right tributary of the river Loire . It flows through the city Saint-Étienne and flows into the Loire in the small town Andrézieux-Bouthéon .
4-477: Towns along the river include: This Loire geographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in France is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Loire (department) Loire ( / l w ɑː r / ; French pronunciation: [lwaʁ] ; Arpitan : Lêre ; Occitan : Léger or Leir ) is a landlocked département in
8-481: Is surrounded by the départements of Rhône , Isère , Ardèche , Haute-Loire , Puy-de-Dôme , Allier , and Saône-et-Loire . The river Loire traverses the department from south to north. The Loire département is divided into three arrondissements : Parts of the department belong to Parc naturel régional Livradois-Forez . The inhabitants of the département are called Ligériens . The industrial city of Saint-Étienne with its agglomeration contains about half of
12-645: The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France occupying the river Loire 's upper reaches. Its prefecture is Saint-Étienne . It had a population of 765,634 in 2019. Loire was created in 1793 when the Rhône-et-Loire département was split into two, about three years after it was created in 1790. This was a response to counter-revolutionary activities in Lyon which, by population, was the country's second largest city. By splitting Rhône-et-Loire
16-517: The government sought to protect the French Revolution from the potential power and influence of counter revolutionary activity in the Lyon region. The Loire département roughly corresponds to the former province of Forez . The departmental capitals (prefectures) throughout its history are as follows: Loire is part of the current administrative region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and
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