Buëch

The **Buëch** () is a river in southeastern France, a right tributary of the Durance. It is also called the **Grand Buëch** in its upper course just to the confluence with the *Petit Buëch* river.

## Geography
The Buëch river has a length of  and a drainage basin with an area of approximately .

Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is  at Laragne-Montéglin in the Hautes-Alpes department, for a period of 15 years.

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**Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Laragne-Montéglin**

### Course
The Buëch starts several kilometres to the east of *col de la Croix-Haute*, a mountain pass in the western side of the *Massif du Dévoluy* mountains, in the *commune* of Lus-la-Croix-Haute, Drôme department, at an elevation of about . It then flows to the southwest and gets into the Hautes-Alpes department and then flows to the south.

Finally, the river flows into the Durance river, as a right tributary, near Sisteron, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department.

The Buëch flows through 3 departments and 23 *communes*, in 2 regions:
* Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes región
** Drôme: Lus-la-Croix-Haute
* Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region
** Hautes-Alpes: La Faurie, Aspres-sur-Buëch, Serres, Saint-Julien-en-Beauchêne, Laragne-Montéglin
** Alpes-de-Haute-Provence: Mison, Sisteron

## Main tributaries 
The main tributaries of the Buëch river are:

**Left tributaries**:
* Petit Buëch - 44.5 km

**Right tributaries**:
* Blaisance - 19.1 km
* Céans -  22.4 km
* Méouge - 39.6 km

## Gallery

Buech-Aspremont2.JPG|The Buëch near Aspremont
Buech-défilé-sud.JPG|The Buëch near Serres
Le Büech en aval de Ribiers.jpg|The Buëch between Ribiers and Sisteron
Buech-Sisteron-05.JPG|Confluence of the Durance (at left) with the Buëch in Sisteron

## Related pages
* List of rivers of France

## References