Cleurie river

Cleurie
Saut de la Cuve cascade on the Cleurie
Country	France
Basin features
Main source	Vosges Mountains
River mouth	Moselotte
Progression	Moselotte→ Moselle→ Rhine→ North Sea
Basin size	77.5 km2 (29.9 sq mi)
Physical characteristics
Length	19 km (12 mi)
Discharge	Average rate: 2.60 m3/s (92 cu ft/s)

The Cleurie or rupt de Cleurie is a river in the Lorraine in France, which flows in the Vosges department. It is a right tributary of the Moselotte, and thus a sub-tributary of the Rhine, via the Moselotte and the Moselle.

The Cleurie rises in the massif des Vosges, within the commune of Gérardmer from the confluence of two streams, the Corsaire and the Noir Rupt. It receives Liézey stream on its right, flows through Le Tholy, follows La Forge, Le Syndicat and Cleurie, then flows into the right bank of the Moselotte at Saint-Amé.

Its name is found in the denomination of the Communauté de communes de la Vallée de la Cleurie.

The flow rate of the Cleurie river has been measured at Cleurie over 38 years from 1967 to 2007. The measurement station is 5 kilometres (3 mi) from the river's confluence with the Moselotte. The watershed of the river there is 68 square kilometres (26 sq mi), or about 88 percent of that at its mouth.

The river's average interannual flow rate or discharge at Cleurie is 2.39 cubic metres per second (84 cu ft/s).

The Cleurie river exhibits moderate seasonal variation in flow rate. High water occurs at the end of autumn and in winter, and are typified by monthly average instantaneous flow rates of between 2.82 and 3.54 cubic metres per second (100 and 125 cu ft/s), from November to March inclusive, with a maximum in December and January. Low water occurs in spring, from July to September inclusive, with a minimum monthly average flow rate of 1.02 cubic metres per second (36 cu ft/s) in August. These monthly averages, however, hide more pronounced short-term variations, especially since the flow rate varies from year to year.