Bandiat

Infobox River | river_name = Bandiat


caption =
origin = Haute-Vienne
mouth = Tardoire
coord|45|46|41|N|0|20|21|E|name=Tardoire-Bandiat|display=inline,title
basin_countries = France
length = 91.2 km
elevation = 440 m
discharge = 0.6 - 6.0 m³/s
watershed = The Bandiat is a small river that is 91 km long, a left tributary of the Tardoire. It flows through the Haute-Vienne, Dordogne and Charente departments in France.

Geography

The Bandiat begins its course just south of the Puy Chauvet (488 m), at roughly 440 m above sea level, near the settlement of Grand Puyconnieux (commune of Dournazac) in the Haute-Vienne department. The river flows first to the southwest and then turns northwest in the Dordogne and, at high water level, empties into the Tardoire (Charente River basin) near Agris in the Charente. Otherwise, the river disappears near Les Vieilles Vaures (commune of Agris) about 5 km before reaching the Tardoire. All the water drains away in several sinkholes in the karst only to reappear near Angoulême as springs of the river Touvre, a tributary of the Charente.

Hydrology

The discharge of the Bandiat was measured near Feuillade as 0.6 m³/s in the summer and 6 m³/s in the winter.

Communes by the river

*Abjat-sur-Bandiat
*Nontron
*Javerlhac
*Feuillade
*Marthon
*Saint-Germain-de-Montbron
*Chazelles
*Pranzac

Gallery

Flood in winter at the mill of Javerlhac
Drought in august, the mill is on the right
karst of La Rochefoucauld

References

*http://www.geoportail.fr
* [http://sandre.eaufrance.fr/app/chainage/courdo/htm/R11-0400.php?cg=R11-0400 The Bandiat at the Sandre database]
* [http://info.eau-poitou-charentes.org/commune.php?idC=16003 Information about the river in Poitou-Charentes]