Departments and Cities
The Tarn passes through the following departments and towns:
- Lozère: Le Pont-de-Montvert, Sainte-Enimie
- Aveyron: Millau
- Tarn: Albi, Gaillac, Lisle-sur-Tarn, Rabastens
- Haute-Garonne: Villemur-sur-Tarn
- Tarn-et-Garonne: Montauban, Moissac.
The Millau Viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, carrying the A75 autoroute across the Tarn Gorge near Millau, opened in December 2004.
The Tarn is famous for its brutal floodings, which are the most dangerous in Europe along with the Danube River. The flooding of March 1930 saw the Tarn rise more than 17 metres (56 ft) above its normal level in Montauban in just 24 hours, with a discharge of 7,000 m³/s (average discharge of Rhine is 2,200 m³/s; average discharge of Nile River during the traditional annual flooding before the building of the Aswan Dam was 8,500 m³/s; average discharge of the Mississippi River is 16,200 m³/s). One third of the Tarn-et-Garonne département was flooded, about 300 people died, thousands of houses were destroyed, the low districts of Montauban were destroyed, the town of Moissac was almost entirely destroyed.
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