{"id":778,"date":"2026-02-11T12:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hydrology\/?p=778"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:19:10","slug":"trip-to-the-water-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hydrology\/trip-to-the-water-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip to the water divide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lausanne is very close to a major water divide: the one separating the Rh\u00f4ne river (that ends up in the Western Mediterranean sea) and the Rhine river (that ends up in the North sea).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Drainage
Drainage basins of the North sea (red) and West Mediterranean sea (green)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\"Proximity
Proximity of Lausanne to the water divide between the Rh\u00f4ne and Rhine river basins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

We went for a little trip on this divide. If not evaporating entirely along the way, rain falling on Luca will end up in the mediterranean sea, while rain falling on Rapha\u00ebl will end up in the North sea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Picture taken at the water divide in the Jorat forest, next to the Chalet des Enfants<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lausanne is very close to a major water divide: the one separating the Rh\u00f4ne river (that ends up in the Western Mediterranean sea) and the Rhine river (that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002724,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002724"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}