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Encyclopedia > Acher
Acher
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Origin Black Forest
Mouth Rhine
Basin countries Germany
Length approx. 40 km
Source elevation 1054 m
Avg. discharge
Watershed area

The Acher is a river in Ortenau County, Baden-Württemberg, Germany and a tributary of the Rhine River. It flows in an eastwesterly direction from the Black Forest toward the Rhine, between the Rench River to the South and the Oos River to the North. A map of Germany, showing the Black Forest in red. ... At 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second, the Rhine (German Rhein, French Rhin, Dutch Rijn, Romansch: Rein, Italian: Reno) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe. ... A watershed is a region of land where water drains downhill into a specified body of water, such as a river, lake, sea, ocean or wetland. ... The source of a river or stream may be a lake, a spring, or a collection of headwaters. ... In hydrology, the discharge of a river is the volume of water transported by it in a certain amount of time. ... A watershed is a region of land where water drains downhill into a specified body of water, such as a river, lake, sea, ocean or wetland. ... Ortenaukreis is a district (Kreis) in the west of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Baden-Württemberg is a federal state in south-western Germany to the east of the Upper Rhine. ... At 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second, the Rhine (German Rhein, French Rhin, Dutch Rijn, Romansch: Rein, Italian: Reno) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe. ... A map of Germany, showing the Black Forest in red. ...


Its source is located near the top of Schliffkopf Mountain (Black Forest) at an elevation of 1054 m above sea level, above Ottenhöfen. From there it runs through the Acher Valley until it enters the Upper Rhine River Plains near Achern and flows into the Rhine near Lichtenau. For considerations of sea level change, in particular rise associated with possible global warming, see sea level rise. ... Ottenhöfen/Black Forest is a town in Western Baden-Württemberg, Germany and belongs to Ortenau County. ... Achern is a city in Western Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ...


External links

  • More information about the Acher (in German) with pictures

References

Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent German-language wikipedia article (retrieved January 25, 2006).

  • Britannica Atlas


 
 

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