L'Escale (; ) is a commune in the

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (sometimes abbreviated as AHP; ; ; ), formerly until 1970 known as Basses-Alpes (, ), is a department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France, bordering Alpes-Maritimes and Italy to the east, Var to the sou ...

department in southeastern

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. It is located on the eastern bank of the Durance opposite Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban.

Geography

The

Bléone The Bléone (; ) is a long river in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence '' département'', southeastern France. Its drainage basin is .

forms the commune's southern border, then flows into the 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 a

power station A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the electricity generation, generation of electric power. Power stations are generally connected to an electr ...

whose three units produce a total of 170,000 KWs of electricity.

Geography

L'Escale Dam

Population

See also