page_title: Durance
section_title: Principal bridges
hierarchical_section_title: Durance / Principal bridges
caption_attribution_description: LGV traversant la Durance vers Cavaillon (84), France
context_page_description: The Durance is a major river in south-eastern France. A left tributary of the Rhône, it is 323.2 km long. Its drainage basin is 14,472 km².
  Its source is in the south-western Alps, in Montgenèvre ski resort near Briançon and it flows south-west through the following departments and cities:
  Hautes-Alpes: Briançon, Embrun.
  Alpes-de-Haute-Provence: Sisteron, Manosque.
  Vaucluse: Cavaillon, Avignon.
  Bouches-du-Rhône.
  The Durance's largest tributary is the Verdon. The Durance itself is a tributary of the Rhône and flows into the Rhône near Avignon. The Durance is the second longest of the tributaries of the Rhône and the third largest in terms of its flow.
context_section_description: Hautes-Alpes :
  Pont de Savines on Lac de Serre-Ponçon (on route nationale RN94) (length 924 metres).
  Alpes-de-Haute-Provence :
  Old bridge to Baume at Sisteron
  Viaduct of the A51 autoroute south of Sisteron
  Dam/bridge at L'Escale (Route nationale RN 85). This replaced the Trébaste Bridge, 1962-3
  Railway viaduct on the line from Saint-Auban to Digne
  Steel girder bridge at Les Mées (road D4a)
  Pont de La Brillanne (road D4b)
  Aqueduct at Villeneuve (canal EDF).
  Pont de Manosque (road D907)
  Between the Vaucluse and the Bouches-du-Rhône :
  Viaduct on the A51 autoroute between Beaumont-de-Pertuis and Cadarache
  Pont de Mirabeau (road ex-RN96)
  Suspension bridge at Pertuis
  Suspension bridge at Mallemort
  Three viaducts for LGV Méditerranée at Cavaillon (length - 940, 900 et 1500 metres)
  Twin viaducts for Route nationale RN7 and for the A7 autoroute at Bonpas
  Suspension bridge at Rognonas (road D970) to the south of Avignon
  Rail viaduct for the old Paris - Marseille line south of Avignon.
caption: Viaduct at Cavaillon for LGV Méditerranée
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