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CAMARGUE (Insula Camaria)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 80 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAMARGUE (Insula Camaria)  , a thinly-populated region of
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southern France contained wholly in the department of Bouchesdu-Rhone, and comprising the delta of the Rhone . The Camargue is a marshy plain of alluvial formation enclosed between the two branches of the
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river, the
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Grand Rhone to the east and the Petit Rhone to the west . Its
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average
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elevation is from 62 to 8 ft . The Camargue has a coast-
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line some 30 M. in length and an
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area of 290 sq. m., of which about a quarter consists of cultivated and fertile
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land . This is in the north and on the banks of the rivers . The rest consists of rough pasture grazed by the black bulls and white horses of the region and by large flocks of sheep, or of marsh, stagnant
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water and waste land impregnated with salt . The region is inhabited by flocks of flamingoes, bustards, partridge, and by sea-birds of various kinds . The Stang de Vaccares, the largest of the numerous lagoons and pools, covers about 23 sq. m.; it receives three main canals constructed to drain off the minor lagoons . The Camargue is protected by dikes from the inundations both of the sea and of the rivers . Inlets in the sea-dike let in water for the purposes of the lagoon
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fisheries and the salt-pans; and the river-water is used for irrigation and for the submersion of vines . The
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climate is characterized by hard winters and scorching summers . Rain falls in torrents, but at considerable intervals .

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mistral, blowing from the north and north-west, is the prevailing wind . The south-eastern portion of the Camargue is known as the Ile du Plan du Bourg . A secondary delta to the west of the Petit Rhone goes by the name of Petite Camargue .

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