Touques (river)

The Touques (French pronunciation: [tuk]) is a small 104 km (65 mi) long coastal river in Pays d'Auge in Normandy, France. The Touques is officially navigable up to the Pont des Belges, 800 m (2,600 ft) from its estuary. Its source is in the Perche hills, south of Gacé. The river runs northwards, and flows into the English Channel between the communes of Deauville and Trouville-sur-Mer in North-Western Calvados. Two ports, the Port of Trouville-sur-Mer and Port of Deauville are situated on the river mouth opposite each other.

Touques
Banks of the Touques in Trouville-sur-Mer.
Native nameLa Touques  (French)
Location
CountryFrance
Physical characteristics
Source 
  locationPerche
  coordinates48.7189°N 0.3223°E / 48.7189; 0.3223
  elevation270 m (890 ft)
Mouth 
  location
English Channel
  coordinates
49°22′2″N 0°4′27″E
Length104 km (65 mi)
Basin size1,305 km2 (504 sq mi)
Discharge 
  average13.5 m3/s (480 cu ft/s)

The Touques was diverted and straightened at the end of the 19th century and the neighbouring swamps dried and built on. Trouville-Deauville station was built on the river's former bed.

Trouville's harbour dock wall was rebuilt at the end of the 1990s due to erosion of the dock's stone wall.

The Touques flows through the following départements and towns:

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