The Varenne is a long

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of w ...

in western

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...

located in the departments of

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.Normandy Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...

) and

Mayenne Mayenne () is a landlocked department in northwest France named after the river Mayenne. Mayenne is part of the administrative region of Pays de la Loire and is surrounded by the departments of Manche, Orne, Sarthe, Maine-et-Loire, and Ill ...

( Pays de la Loire). It is a tributary of the river

on the right side, and so is a sub-tributary of the

Loire The Loire (, also ; ; oc, Léger, ; la, Liger) is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world. With a length of , it drains , more than a fifth of France's land, while its average discharge is only half that of the Rhône ...

by Mayenne and Maine. It flows into the Mayenne near

Ambrières-les-Vallées Ambrières-les-Vallées () is a commune in the Mayenne department in northwestern France. It is on the border of Normandy. Population Notable people * Louis Tanquerel des Planches (1810–1862), physician and researcher See also *Communes ...

. Its longest tributaries are the Égrenne, the Pisse, the Halouze and the Andainette. The largest town on the Varenne is

Domfront en Poiraie Domfront en Poiraie (, literally ''Domfront in Pear Orchard'') is a commune in the department of Orne, northwestern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 by merger of the former communes of Domfront (the seat), La Haute-Cha ...

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Rivers of France Rivers of Mayenne Rivers of Orne Rivers of Normandy Rivers of Pays de la Loire {{France-river-stub