page_title: Bèze (river)
section_title: Landscapes
hierarchical_section_title: Bèze (river) / Geography and description / Bèze-Albane basin / Landscapes
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Pont sur la Bèze à Bèzouotte (Côted 'Or).
context_page_description: The Bèze is a French river in the Côte-d'Or department, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.
  It is a right tributary of the Saône, and thus a sub-tributary of the Rhône.
  The river rises in the Crétanne cave in the village of Bèze, then crosses several communes in its 31.2 kilometres course before entering the Saône in Vonges.
  Its source is the outlet of a vast underground network fed by the Tille and the Venelle.
  A walk has been laid out around the spring, which is a major tourist attraction in the region.
  The watershed of the Bèze river and its main tributary, the Albane, irrigates the Saône Vingeanne country, over a total area of 250 square kilometres
  Along its course the landscape alternates between forested areas and areas of large crops, livestock meadows and ponds.
  The basin is home to four natural areas of interest for their ecology, fauna and flora.
  Human occupation along the river began as early as the Paleolithic.
  In Roman Gaul the sanctuary of Mirebeau-sur-Bèze, on an important axis of communication, was an important place in the region.
  The site was occupied by the Legio VIII Augusta, who built an imposing military camp.
context_section_description: The vegetation is mixed, with a marked contrast between the forest and arable land.
  Reliefs are also mixed with more rolling hills in the northwest of the basin in the communes of Viévigne, Tanay, Belleneuve and in the area of Noiron-sur-Bèze, Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur, Bèze and Bourberain. 
  The water courses are more enclosed and the woods and villages are often on the hills.
  The watershed comprises four main types of Zone naturelle d'intérêt écologique, faunistique et floristique (ZNIEFF):
  Type II ZNIEFF #260015037, Velours and Fontaine-Française forests, spanning the territories of Lux, Bourberain, Tanay,Bèze and Viévigne.
  Type II ZNIEFF #260015026, Bèze valley holding all the land near Bèze river in the communes of Bèze and Vonges, including the Mirebeau domain forest
  Type II ZNIEFF #260015020, Longchamp forest, spanning the municipalities of Étevaux, Saint-Léger-Triey, Lamarche-sur-Saône and Longchamp.
  Type I ZNIEFF#00550001) is included in the Longchamp forest and covers the lake of Saint-Léger-Triey ("The Big Pond")
  Type II ZNIEFF #260015009, Saône valley from Vonges to Auxonne.
  Type 1 ZNIEFF # 00340001 is in the ZNIEFF II Saône valley from Pontailler-sur-Saône to Auxonne.
caption: Course of La Bèze in Bézouotte
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