| Souleuvre | |
| Pushpin Map: | France#France Normandy |
| Source1 Location: | la Lamerie, Montchamp |
| Source1 Coordinates: | 48.9281°N -0.7189°W |
| Mouth: | Vire |
| Mouth Location: | Campeaux, Carville |
| Length: | 19km (12miles) |
| Source1 Elevation: | 190m (620feet) |
| Mouth Elevation: | 74m (243feet) |
| Mouth Coordinates: | 48.9491°N -0.8934°W |
| Discharge1 Avg: | 1.57m3/s (Carville)[1] |
| Basin Size: | 120km2 |
| Custom Label: | Source |
| Custom Data: | Géoportail, Sandre |
The Souleuvre (pronounced as /fr/) is a 19.0 km long right affluent of the Vire in Normandy, northwestern France.
It crops at Montchamp near the hamlets of Lamerie, la Druerie and la Saffrie, 9 km to the east of Le Bény-Bocage and arrives at Le Tourneur where, having been rejoined by several affluents, it runs along the bed of a steep westwards pictorial valley, formed from the cambrian syncline of la zone bocaine. It lies in the bocage virois.
It joins the Vire, at the northern limit of Carville and Sainte-Marie-Laumont. It then runs westwards through les gorges de la Vire.
Its basin lies between those of la Drôme (north), l'Orne (west) and l'Allière (south).[2] Its confluence with the Vire lies west of the basin.
It has 3 main affluents on its right bank:the Blandouit (6,3 km), joined by the Rubec (5.9 km) at Saint-Pierre-Tarentainethe Courbençon (9,5 km) at Le Tourneurthe Roucamps (14,4 km) between Le Tourneur and La Ferrière-Harang.
The Souleuvre and the Vire along with the Rubec and the Blandouit form a digging axe in the bocain syncline shaping a pictural valley ending in les gorges de la Vire.
Montchamp, Saint-Charles-de-Percy, Montchauvet, Le Bény-Bocage, Saint-Pierre-Tarentaine, Le Tourneur, Carville, La Ferrière-Harang, Campeaux
The Souleuvre basin is a Natura 2000 marked site, namely for its white-clawed crayfish and sculpin population,[3] as well as European brook lamprey and Atlantic salmon.