| Faux | |
| Name Other: | Fau |
| Pushpin Map: | France#France Grand Est |
| Source1 Coordinates: | 49.8886°N 4.6564°W |
| Mouth Coordinates: | 49.9325°N 4.6256°W |
| Subdivision Type1: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | France |
| Length: | 19.4km (12.1miles) |
The Fau or Faux, also known as ruisseau de Faux (the "creek Faux") is a small but abundant river of the department of the Ardennes in France. It is a left-bank tributary of the Meuse.
The Faux has its source to the east of the town of Les Mazures in the western part of the Massif of the Ardennes located south of the Franco-Belgian border (south of the province of Namur) at a height of 380 m. At the place where it is born, it turns south, but soon after begins a wide loop that takes it north and then northeast. After a route of 19.4 kilometers, it merges with the Meuse at Revin. It is fed by numerous and abundant streams which, like it, flow down from the Ardennes massif
It bathes the towns of Bourg-Fidèle and Revin, but the river mostly runs in the middle of the forest.
In the Ardennes department alone, the Faux crosses the following seven municipalities, from upstream to downstream: Les Mazures (source), Sécheval, Renwez, Harcy, Bourg-Fidèle, Rocroi, Revin (confluence).
The source of the Faux is in the canton of Bogny-sur-Meuse, it then crosses the canton of Charleville-Mézières-2, the canton of Rocroi, and has its confluence in the canton of Revin, in the arrondissement of Charleville-Mézières.
The managing body of the Faux and its tributaries is the (EPTB) EPAMA.[1] The Faux is part of the Meuse zone from the confluence of the Chiers to the confluence of the Semois.
The Faux has seven referenced tributaries:
Its Strahler number is therefore three.
The Faux Basin is almost entirely located in an area with high rainfall. The modulus of the river at the confluence of the Meuse is, for a small watershed of .[2]
The depth of runoff of water flowing in this basin is 579 millimeters, which is high, much higher than that of the average for France, all basins combined, and even compared to the various rivers of the Meuse basin, generally very abundant. The average of the French basin of the Meuse at Chooz, near the Faux's exit from French territory, shows a water depth of 450 millimeters.[3]