Limmat

Limmat
The Limmat in Zürich, looking downstream to Rathausbrücke from Quaibrücke at Lake Zurich, Stadthausquai to the left and Limmatquai to right.
Location
Country	Switzerland
Cantons	Zürich, Aargau
Settlements	Zürich (ZH), Schlieren (ZH), Dietikon (ZH), Oetwil a.d.L. (ZH), Wettingen (AG), Baden (AG), Ennetbaden (AG), Nussbaumen (AG), Turgi (AG), Untersiggenthal (AG)
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Lake Zurich, Zürich
• coordinates	47°22′00″N 8°32′35″E / 47.36677°N 8.54316°E / 47.36677; 8.54316
• elevation	406 m (1,332 ft)
Mouth
• location	Aare, Gebenstorf
• coordinates	47°30′07″N 8°14′15″E / 47.5019°N 8.2375°E / 47.5019; 8.2375
• elevation	328 m (1,076 ft)
Length	36.3 kilometres (22.6 mi), 140 kilometres (87 mi) (Lake Zurich and Linth included)
Basin size	2,416 km2 (933 sq mi) (Lake Zurich and Linth included)
Discharge
• location	Baden
• average	101.0 m3/s (3,570 cu ft/s) (MQ 1951-2013)
• minimum	69.2 m3/s (2,440 cu ft/s) (MNQ 1951-2013), 24.6 m3/s (870 cu ft/s) (NNQ, 2003)
• maximum	141 m3/s (5,000 cu ft/s) (MHQ 1951-2013), 657 m3/s (23,200 cu ft/s) (HHQ, 1999)
Basin features
Progression	Aare→ Rhine→ North Sea
Tributaries
• left	Sihl, Schäflibach, Reppisch, Dorfbach Spreitenbach
• right	Länggenbach, Furtbach, Lugibach, Gottesgraben
Waterbodies	Lake Zurich, Stausee Wettingen

The Limmat is a river in Switzerland. The river commences at the outfall of Lake Zurich, in the southern part of the city of Zürich. From Zürich it flows in a northwesterly direction, continuing a further 35 km it reaches the river Aare. The confluence is located north of the small town of Brugg and shortly after the mouth of the Reuss.

The main towns along the Limmat Valley downstream of Zürich are Dietikon, Wettingen, and Baden. Its main tributaries are the Linth, via Lake Zurich, the Sihl, in Zürich, and the Reppisch, in Dietikon.

The hydronym is first attested in the 8th century, as Lindimacus. It is of Gaulish origin, from *lindo- "lake" (Welsh llyn) and *magos "plain" (Welsh maes), and was thus presumably in origin the name of the plain formed by the Linth.^[1]