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Birs

The Birs (French: Birse) is a 73-kilometre (45 mi) long river in Switzerland that flows through the Jura region and ends as a tributary to the Rhine between Basel and Birsfelden. It is the most important river of the Swiss Jura. Course The Birs has its source in a spring near the Col de Pierre Pertuis at 762 metres (2,500 ft) above sea level a little southwest of Tavannes in the Jura bernois. It starts as a proper river; the large amount of water is the product of an extended underground river system. The Birs runs through wider valleys (Vall??e de Tavannes) and narrow gorges. Near Del??mont, the capital of the canton of Jura, it joins the Sorne and the Scheulte. Between Soyhi??res and Liesberg, it leaves the French-speaking part of Switzerland, enters the canton of Basel-Landschaft and receives the L??tzel from the left. In Laufen it forms a waterfall, which was the source of power and of the name of the city....

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