Souleuvre

Souleuvre
Souleuvre valley
Physical characteristics
Main source	la Lamerie, Montchamp 190 m (620 ft) 48°55′41″N 0°43′08″W / 48.9281°N 0.7189°W / 48.9281; -0.7189
River mouth	Vire, Campeaux, Carville 74 m (243 ft) 48°56′57″N 0°53′36″W / 48.9491°N 0.8934°W / 48.9491; -0.8934Coordinates: 48°56′57″N 0°53′36″W / 48.9491°N 0.8934°W / 48.9491; -0.8934
Length	18.3 km (11.4 mi)
Discharge	Average rate: 1.57 m3/s (55 cu ft/s) (Carville)
Basin features
Progression	Vire→ English Channel
Basin size	120 km2 (46 sq mi)
Source	Géoportail, Sandre

La Souleuvre is an 18.3 km long right affluent of the Vire in Normandy.

It crops at Montchamp near the hamlets of Lamerie, la Druerie and la Saffrie, 9 km to the east of Le Bény-Bocage and arrives at Le Tourneur where, having been rejoined by several affluents, it runs along the bed of a steep westwards pictorial valley, formed from the cambrian syncline of la zone bocaine. It lies in the bocage virois.

It joins the Vire, at the northern limit of Carville and Sainte-Marie-Laumont. It then runs westwards through les gorges de la Vire.

Its basin lies between those of la Drôme (north), l'Orne (west) and l'Allière (south). Its confluence with the Vire lies west of the basin.

It has 3 main affluents on its right bank: the Blandouit (6,3 km), joined by the Rubec (5.9 km) at Saint-Pierre-Tarentaine the Courbençon (9,5 km) at Tourneur the Roucamps (14,4 km) between Le Tourneur and La Ferrière-Harang.

La Souleuvre and la Vire along with le Rubec and the Blandouit form a digging axe in the bocain syncline shaping a pictural valley ending in les gorges de la Vire.

Montchamp, Saint-Charles-de-Percy, Montchauvet, Le Bény-Bocage, Saint-Pierre-Tarentaine, Le Tourneur, Carville, La Ferrière-Harang, Campeaux

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