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French river, rising in Haute-Vienne
departement and flowing past Angouleme and
Cognac into the Bay of Biscay below
Rochefort. Length 360 km/225 mi. Its wide
estuary is much silted up. It gives its name
to two departements, Charente and
Charente-Maritime (formerly
Charente-Inferieure).