page_title: Aureille
section_title: Hydrography
hierarchical_section_title: Aureille / Geography / Hydrography
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Canal de Craponne depuis la D25b (Aureille, Bouches-du-Rhône)
context_page_description: Aureille is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southern France.
  The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aureillois or Aureilloises.
  The commune has been awarded one flower by the National Council of Towns and Villages in Bloom in the Competition of cities and villages in Bloom.
context_section_description: Aureille is traversed by the Gaudre d'Aureille, a 12 km long stream, and also by the Gaudre de la Vallongue, which is 4.2 kilometres long. They both flow into the Étang de Berre.
  The Gaudre de Romanin, a 9.4 km long sub-tributary of the Durance, also flows through the commune.
  The Arles branch of the Craponne Canal has irrigated the south of the commune since June 1582 which has allowed the commune to be a major producer of Crau hay.
  The Baux Valley Canal crosses the commune to the north of the plain. This canal was built in 1914 following an intervention led by Paul Révoil, the Ambassador of France - who was from Mouriès, to cope with periods of drought which compelled more and more people from the Alpilles to move to Crau which was better irrigated.
caption: The Craponne Canal
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