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Water and rivers: The Durance, a Provençal queen
<p>Taking its source at Mount Genèvre in the Hautes-Alpes, the Durance continues its course in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence to then establish the border between Bouches-du-Rhône and Vaucluse. The various hydroelectric constructions (like the huge dam of Serre-Ponçon) have significantly reduced its flow and its natural environment. The challenge today is to reconcile the production of electricity from renewable energy and the protection of the ecosystems of the stream.</p>
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Geology: Coloured pebbles
<p>During the tour, you will often find pebbles under your feet. A pebble is a piece of rock torn from erosion and rounded from travelling rivers. There are of all colours and some come from far away, the Alps. We are 20 to 25m above the Durance and yet it has left these pebbles during the last ice age between 60 000 and 15 000 years ago.</p>
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Water and rivers: Watering from the Durance
<p>The Union Canal (or mixed channel) draws its water from the Durance EDF (French energy company) channel at the Mallemort dam. This canal supplies the Cabedan-neuf Canal, the Saint-Julien Canal, the Canal de l'Isle and the Carpentras Canal. It is therefore almost 20 000ha which are irrigated from the Union Canal, spread over 56 communes of the Vaucluse.</p>
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Fauna: The southern frog
<p style="text-align: justify;">This little bright green frog is very discreet in the daytime when it clings to branches or reed leaves. It lives near bodies of water. When the rainy season approaches or during the chanting of the males from May to July, you can hear it chant from almost a kilometre away.!</p>
[Trek] Between the scrubland and the Durance river
<p>Cross the second barrier and go straight into the woods. Continue straight at the first intersection and then at the intersection shaped in a Y, take a right. Reach the point of view of the Durance (do not go beyond reason to the cliff edge).!)</p>
<p><strong>1 </strong>- Take a right. Continue straight to the next crossing.</p>
<p><strong>2 </strong>- Do not miss on the left the path going down to the valley of the Grand Jardin. Go past a house and crops and upon arriving on a small road, go across under the railway track. Take the second road ahead and then the dirt road across (old car park). Cross the little bridge over the old canal of Carpentras.</p>
<p><strong>3 </strong>- .Continue straight Reach to another path. Turn left, climb the dam by the stairs and reach the bird observatory. Retrace your steps and turn left at the foot of the staircase. Leave behind the track taken at the beginning and continue straight the path at the foot of the dam. On the bridle path, continue on the right along a large field and reach the Carpentras canal. Continue to the right until the end of the dirt road.</p>
<p><strong>4 </strong>- Just before the road, turn right, go through the woods and follow the path along the old canal. Come back to the small bridge (point 3).</p>
<p><strong>3 </strong>- Take a sharp left and go back to the forest of La Garrigue (point 2) by the route taken at the beginning.</p>
<p><strong>2</strong> - At the top of the steep hill, continue straight. Then take a right to return to the starting point calmly.</p>Modified: 12 weeks ago
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