RANCE RIVER


Meaning of RANCE RIVER in English

river, rising in the Landes du Men, a chain of hills in Ctes-d'Armor dpartement, western France. It flows for 60 miles (97 km) past Dinan to form an estuary on the Brittany (Bretagne) coast of the English Channel at Saint-Malo, where the world's first large-scale tidal plant, using flood and ebb tides to generate electricity, was completed in 1967.

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