Souleuvre


La Souleuvre is an 18.3 km long right affluent of the Vire in Normandy.

Geography

It crops at Montchamp near the hamlets of Lamerie, la Druerie and la Saffrie, 9 km to the east of Le Bény-Bocage and arrives at Le Tourneur where, having been rejoined by several affluents, it runs along the bed of a steep westwards pictorial valley, formed from the cambrian syncline of la zone bocaine. It lies in the.
It joins the Vire, at the northern limit of Carville and Sainte-Marie-Laumont. It then runs westwards through les gorges de la Vire.

Watershed

Its basin lies between those of la Drôme, l'Orne and l'Allière. Its confluence with the Vire lies west of the basin.
It has 3 main affluents on its right bank:
the Blandouit, joined by the Rubec at Saint-Pierre-Tarentaine
the Courbençon at Tourneur
the Roucamps between Le Tourneur and La Ferrière-Harang.
La Souleuvre and la Vire along with le Rubec and the Blandouit form a digging axe in the bocain syncline shaping a pictural valley ending in les gorges de la Vire.

Communes

, Saint-Charles-de-Percy, Montchauvet, Le Bény-Bocage, Saint-Pierre-Tarentaine, Le Tourneur, Carville, La Ferrière-Harang, Campeaux

Souleuvre valley

The Souleuvre basin is a Natura 2000 marked site, namely for its white-clawed crayfish and sculpin population, as well as European brook lamprey and Atlantic salmon.