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L'Escale (; oc, L'Escala) is a
The
commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to:
Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
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in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France
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. It is located on the eastern bank of the Durance opposite Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban.
Geography
The Bléone
The Bléone (; oc, Blèuna) is a long river in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence ''département'', southeastern France. Its drainage basin is .Durance, which forms the commune's western border.
L'Escale Dam
Work began on the dam in 1959, which was completed in 1963. With a height of 30ms it retains 15.70 hm³ of water. It is 126 metres long with a road carriageway along which runs the Route Napoleon. There is attached to the dam apower station
A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power. Power stations are generally connected to an electrical grid.
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whose three units produce a total of 170,000 KWs of electricity.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department
The following is a list of the 198 Communes of France, communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Departments of France, department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2020 ...
References
Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{AlpesHauteProvence-geo-stub