Aveyron (river)
The 883rd longest river in the world
The Aveyron (French pronunciation: [aveʁɔ̃], Occitan: Avairon) is a 291 km long river in southern France, right tributary of the Tarn. It rises in the southern Massif Central, near Sévérac-le-Château. In 1855, evidence of prehistoric humans was discovered near Bruniquel beneath a hill called Montastruc. The hill was 98 feet high. According to contemporary accounts, the rock overhang extended for about 46 feet along the river, enclosing an area of 298 square yards. Within this shelter, archaeologists found the 13,000-year-old sculpture known as the Swimming Reindeer.
Flows through: France.
River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.