The Baize is a river in northwestern France, crossing the departments of Orne and Calvados. It is 25.72 km long. Its source is in Habloville, and it flows into the river

Orne Orne (; nrf, Ôrne or ) is a département in the northwest of France, named after the river Orne. It had a population of 279,942 in 2019.Les Isles-Bardel and Rapilly, at the end of the Baize valley, through Suisse Normande.

Tributaries

A list of the major tributaries of the Baize: *Bilaine *Bezeron *Boulaire *Ruisseau du Val Lienard *Ruisseau du Val *Ruisseau de la Fontaine Andre *Ruisseau des Vallees *Ruisseau des Vaux Viets Habloville 2010-01-18 003

Fauna and Flaura

The rocky and stoney bed with good water quality makes the Baize a good habitat for spawning

Atlantic salmon The Atlantic salmon (''Salmo salar'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae. It is the third largest of the Salmonidae, behind Siberian taimen and Pacific Chinook salmon, growing up to a meter in length. Atlantic salmon are ...

and Sea trout, as well as

River Trout ''Salmo trutta fario'', sometimes called the river trout, and also known by the name of its parent species, the brown trout, is a predatory fish of the family Salmonidae and a subspecies or morph of the brown trout species, ''Salmo trutta'', whic ...

and

white-clawed crayfish ''Austropotamobius pallipes'' is an endangered European freshwater crayfish, and the only crayfish native to the British Isles. Its common names include white-clawed crayfish and Atlantic stream crayfish. Distribution It is found from the eas ...

References

Rivers of France Rivers of Normandy Rivers of Calvados (department) Rivers of Orne {{France-river-stub