page_title: Artemare
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Artemare / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: The CC.6575 with a train Modane - Lyon Français&#160;: La CC.6575 sur un TER Modane - Lyon
context_page_description: Artemare is a commune in the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France.
  The inhabitants of the commune are known as Artemariens or Artemariennes
context_section_description: Artemare is a commune in Valromey 16 km north of Belley and 8 km north-west of Culoz and the Rhône. Artemare is exposed to the south between two chains of the Jura Mountains: the Planachat in the west and the Colombier culminating in Grand-Colombier (1538 m) to the east.
  This village is between Lower-Bugey and Upper-Bugey not far from Savoie and Isère.
  The commune can be accessed from several roads: the D69D from Champdossin-Massignieu in the west, the D31L from Pont in the north, and the D904 from Ameyzieu in the east which continues south from the village to Virieu-le-Grand. The main railway line from Modane to Lyon passes through the south of the commune from west to east. Apart from the village, which has quite a large urban area, and the hamlet of Cerveyrieu, the rest of the commune is mixed farmland and forest.
  Artemare is watered by a network of four rivers:
  the River Yon, enclosed in a canal through the village and used to work sawmills and to feed trout ponds. It flows into the Séran which is a tributary of the Rhone which it joins near Culoz
  the Séran traverses the hamlet of Cerveyrieu  which gives its name to a beautiful waterfall about fifty metres high
  the Arvière (locally called the Groin) forms a confluence with the Seran.
  the Ruisseau de l'Eau Morte (Dead Water)
  The Groin and the Séran cut deeply into the limestone terrain. The Groin rises in the commune of Vieu from a spectacular intermittent source before forming a deep canyon visible from Devil's Bridge in Vieu. The Séran rises upstream of the Cerveyrieu waterfall from beautiful Giant's kettles where water swirls around - but only when the Seran is not dry.
caption: A train passing through Artemare to Lyon
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