page_title: Aisne
section_title: Hydrography
hierarchical_section_title: Aisne / Geography / Hydrography
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Verkeersbrug over de Aisne in Soissons Français&#160;: Pont sur la rivière Aisne à Soissons Español: Puente sobre el río Aisne, Soissons, Francia
context_page_description: Aisne is a French department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. It is named after the river Aisne.
context_section_description: The Scheldt (which takes its source near Le Catelet), the Aisne, the Marne, the Ourcq, the Vesle, the Somme (which rises in Fonsommes), the Oise, and the Serre. In the south of the department, there is the Surmelin, the Verdonnelle, and the Dhuys (this river is channeled into the Dhuis Aqueduct, 131 km long, to supply drinking water to Paris since 1 October 1865 and also more recently the Leisure Park of Marne-la-Vallée).
  The department is also crossed by numerous canals (e.g. the Canal of Saint-Quentin, 93 km).
caption: The Aisne river at Soissons, 2008
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