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A long river with two arms
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Four hundred and sixty-nine miles (756 km) long, the Rhône has its source in Switzerland at an altitude of 5,741 ft (1,750 m), crosses Lake Geneva, receives the Saône in Lyon, and flows south between the Alps and the Massif Central. It joins the Mediterranean Sea at the Gulf of Lion, a wide and shallow continental platform where the transported sediments were deposited and formed the Camargue delta. This very evolving delta today consists of two arms that separate upstream from Arles: the Petit Rhône, which receives 11 to 13% of the Rhône and flows into the sea west of Saintes-Marie-de-la-Mer, and the Grand Rhône that reaches the sea downstream of Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône (photo).
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