The Xoulces is a small but abundant
river in
France which flows in
Lorraine in the
Vosges department. It is a
left tributary of the
Moselotte, and thus a sub-tributary of the
Rhine via the Moselotte and the
Moselle
The Moselle ( , ; german: Mosel ; lb, Musel ) is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains and flows through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany. It is a bank (geography), left bank tributary of the Rhine, which it jo ...
. It is long.
Geography
The river starts from the
confluence
In geography, a confluence (also: ''conflux'') occurs where two or more flowing bodies of water join to form a single channel. A confluence can occur in several configurations: at the point where a tributary joins a larger river (main stem); o ...
of the Rouge Rupt and the Goutte du Grand Clos in the massif des Vosges. Its course lies entirely in the
commune of
Cornimont.
Hydrology
The
hydrological discharge of the Xoulces measured at its confluence with the Moselotte is , for a
watershed
Watershed is a hydrological term, which has been adopted in other fields in a more or less figurative sense. It may refer to:
Hydrology
* Drainage divide, the line that separates neighbouring drainage basins
* Drainage basin, called a "watershe ...
of . The
runoff curve number The runoff curve number (also called a curve number or simply CN) is an empirical parameter used in hydrology for predicting direct runoff or infiltration from rainfall excess. The curve number method was developed by the USDA Natural Resources Con ...
in the watershed is , which is highly abundant and comparable to the average for rivers in the Moselotte basin. It is more than four times higher than the average for France including all basins, but also three times higher than average for the French Moselle basin, at
Hauconcourt downstream of
MetzBanque Hydro - Station A7930610 - The Moselle at Hauconcourt (Synthèse option)
/ref>). The specific flow rate of the Xoulces thus rises to 44.9 litres per second per square kilometre of watershed.
See also
* List of rivers of France
External links
*
* {{cite web, url= http://www.lorraine.ecologie.gouv.fr/Eau_quantite/cataloguedebits/debitsobserves/moselleamont/moselotte.pdf , archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061121213125/http://www.lorraine.ecologie.gouv.fr/Eau_quantite/cataloguedebits/debitsobserves/moselleamont/moselotte.pdf , url-status= dead , archive-date= 2006-11-21 , title=Characteristic flow rates of the Moselotte
References
Rivers of Vosges (department)
Rivers of Grand Est
Rivers of France