page_title: Saar River
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Saar River / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Quelle der Roten Saar
context_page_description: The Saar is a river in northeastern France and western Germany. It is a right tributary of the Moselle River. It rises in the Vosges Mountains in Grand Est and flows northwards into the Moselle near Trier.
  The first written mention of the Saar, in Latin language as Saravus, is found in the poem Mosella by the Roman poet Decimus Magnus Ausonius.
context_section_description: With a length of 246 km (153 mi), it is the largest tributary of the Moselle river. Its drainage basin has an area of approximately 7,431 km² (2,869 sq mi).
caption: Source of the Red Saar
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