- Tech River
Infobox River | river_name = Tech
caption =
origin =Pyrenees
mouth =Mediterranean Sea
coord|42|35|24|N|3|2|43|E|name=Mediterranean Sea-Tech|display=inline,title
basin_countries =France
length = 84 km
elevation = ±2,500 m
discharge = 9.6 m³/s
watershed = 750 km²The Tech is ariver in southernFrance , very close to the French-Spanish border. It runs through a valley in thePyrénées-Orientales and is 84 km long. Its source is the Parcigoule Valley (2,500 meters high) and it feeds theMediterranean Sea . AtCéret , the medieval "Devil's bridge", once the largest bridge arch in the world, spans the river in an arc of 45 m length.The Tech flows through the following towns:
Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste ,Arles-sur-Tech ,Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda ,Céret andLe Boulou . It flows into the Mediterranean Sea between Saint-Cyprien andArgelès-sur-Mer , southeast ofPerpignan .References
*cite web
last = Cotrim da Cunha
first = Leticia, Léon Serve, François Gadel and Jean-Louis Blazi
title = "Lignin-derived phenolic compounds as indicators of the nature of particulate organic matter in a Mediterranean river, the Tech"
publisher = 2nd International Electronic Conference on Synthetic Organic Chemistry
date =1998-09
url = http://ecsoc2.hcc.ru/ecsoc-2/dp275/dp275.htm
accessdate = 2007-01-27
*http://www.geoportail.fr
* [http://sandre.eaufrance.fr/app/chainage/courdo/htm/Y02-0400.php?cg=Y02-0400 The Tech at the Sandre database]
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