Vire River

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Vire River

The Vire is a river

River

A river is a natural stream of water, usually freshwater, flowing toward an ocean, a lake, or another stream. In some cases a river flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water....
in Normandy

Normandy

Normandy is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. It is situated along the coast of France south of the English Channel between Brittany and Picardy and comprises territory in northern France and the Channel Islands....
in France

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
whose 128 km course crosses the départements
Départements of France

In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies, a department is an administrative division roughly analogous to an Districts of England, a Counties of the United States or a Regions and districts of Scotland....
of Calvados

Calvados

The France departments of France of Calvados forms part of the regions of France of Basse-Normandie in Normandy. It takes its name from a cluster of rocks off the coast....
and Manche

Manche

Manche is a France Departments of France in Normandy named after La Manche , which is the French language name for the English Channel....
, flowing through the towns of Vire

Vire

Vire is a Communes of the Calvados department and the seat of a Cantons of France of the Calvados departments of France in the Basse-Normandie r?gion in France of France....
, Saint-Lô

Saint-Lô

Saint-L? is a Communes of France in northwestern France, the capital of the Manche Departments of France in Normandy....
and Isigny-sur-Mer

Isigny-sur-Mer

Isigny-sur-Mer is a Communes of France in the Calvados Departments of France in the Basse-Normandie Regions of France in northern France....
, finally flowing out into the English Channel

English Channel

The English Channel is an Arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest, to only in the Strait of Dover....
.(Atlas, 2007)

The outflow of the Vire has been canalized and forms the port of Isigny-sur-Mer.

The poets of the Vire valley (Vau de Vire) are said to have given rise to vaudeville

Vaudeville

Vaudeville was a genre of a variety show prevalent on the theatre in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. It developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrel show, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque....
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Places along the river:

generally brownish waters of the Vire are moderately alkaline having been tested by Lumina Tech as pH

pH is a measure of the Acid or Base of a solution. It is defined as the cologarithm of the Activity of dissolved hydrogen ions . Hydrogen ion activity coefficients cannot be measured experimentally, so they are based on theoretical calculations....
8.31.

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