Le barrage de l'Escale est situé sur le cours de la Durance dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence entre les communes de L'Escale en rive gauche et Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban en rive droite.
Location
510 m
The canton of Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban is an administrative division of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. It was created in the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban.
It consists of the following communes:
944 m
L'Escale is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. It is located on the eastern bank of the Durance opposite Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban.
979 m
Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban is a commune in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in southeastern France.
3.4 km
Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban Airport is an airport located 4 kilometres south-southwest of Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence département of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in France.
A campus of the École nationale de l'aviation civile is located on the aerodrome.
3.9 km
The Bléone is a 69.5-kilometre long river in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence département, southeastern France. Its drainage basin is 906 km2. Its source is several small streams converging near the refuge de l'Estrop, a mountain shelter in Prads-Haute-Bléone. It flows generally southwest. It is a left tributary of the Durance into which it flows between L'Escale and Les Mées.