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Rance River
Boats on the Rance River, western France.
Rance River
river, France
Rance River, river, rising in the Landes du MenĂ©, a chain of hills in CĂŽtes-dâArmor dĂ©partement, Brittany rĂ©gion, western France. It flows for 60 miles (97 km) past Dinan to form an estuary on the Brittany coast of the English Channel at Saint-Malo, where the worldâs first large-scale tidal plant, using flood and ebb tides to generate electricity, was completed in 1967.
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