page_title: Aare
section_title: Tributaries
hierarchical_section_title: Aare / Tributaries
caption_attribution_description: English: Bern, Switzerland
context_page_description: The Aare or Aar is a tributary of the High Rhine and the longest river that both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland.
  Its total length from its source to its junction with the Rhine comprises about 295 kilometres, during which distance it descends 1,565 m, draining an area of 17,779 km², almost entirely within Switzerland, and accounting for close to half the area of the country, including all of Central Switzerland.
  There are more than 40 hydroelectric plants along the course of the Aare.
  The river's name dates to at least the La Tène period, and it is attested as Nantaror "Aare valley" in the Berne zinc tablet.
  The name was Latinized as Arula/Arola/Araris.
context_section_description: Limmat (after and northeast of Brugg, and northwest of Baden)
  Reppisch
  Sihl
  Alp
  Minster
  Lake Zurich
  Linthkanal
  Lake Walen
  Linth
  Löntsch
  Sernf
  Flätschbach
  Seez
  Reuss (after and northeast of Brugg, and northwest of Baden)
  Lorze
  Kleine Emme
  Lake Lucerne
  Sarner Aa
  Engelberger Aa
  Muota
  Schächen
  Chärstelenbach
  Göschener Reuss
  Aabach (coming from Seetal, in Wildegg)
  Bünz
  Suhre (after and north of Aarau)
  Wyna
  Aabach (from the left in Aarau)
  Stegbach
  Dünnern (in Olten)
  Wigger (right before Aarburg)
  Murg (before, west of Murgenthal)
  Rot (Roggwil)
  Langete (Langenthal)
  Ursenbach (Kleindietwil)
  Rotbach (Huttwil)
  (Grosse) Emme (after, east of Solothurn)
  Lake of Bienne
  La Suze (in Biel/Bienne, right next to the outflow)
  Zihlkanal
  Lake of Neuchatel
  La Broye (flows through Lake Morat)
  Zihl/La Thielle
  L'Orbe
  Le Talent
  Saane/La Sarine (after, west of Wohlensee)
  Sense
  Gürbe (in Muri bei Bern)
  Zulg (west of Steffisburg)
  Lake Thun
  Kander (west of Spiez)
  Simme
  Entschlige
  Lake Brienz
  Lütschine (at the end of Lake Brienz, right next to the outflow)
  Gadmerwasser (right after, northwest of Innertkirchen)
caption: Aare in Bern
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