Departments and cities Tarn (river)

a boatman tourists begins ride through gorges du tarn

the tarn passes through following departments , 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, tallest bridge in world, carrying a75 autoroute across tarn gorge near millau, opened in december 2004.

the tarn famous brutal floodings, dangerous in europe along danube river. flooding of march 1930 saw tarn rise more 17 metres (56 ft) above normal level in montauban in 24 hours, discharge of 7,000 m³/s (average discharge of rhine 2,200 m³/s; average discharge of nile river during traditional annual flooding before building of aswan dam 8,500 m³/s; average discharge of mississippi river 16,200 m³/s). 1 third of tarn-et-garonne département flooded, 300 people died, thousands of houses destroyed, low districts of montauban destroyed, town of moissac entirely destroyed.