Port

Port Mahon

Name: Port Mahon
Address: Sigean, FR
Telephone: +33606667842

Sigean, FranceLanguedoc-Roussillon

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Maximum length: 13 ft
Maximum draught: 0 ft

Shallow pontoon on the étang de Bages-Sigean, commune of Sigean, Aude.

Guide

Approach and anchoring

Accessible via the grau de la Nouvelle and the Robine canal from the Mediterranean. Very shallow water, usable draught limited to about 0.25 m at the pontoon. Keep to the marked channel across the étang, depths outside the channel drop below 1 m.

Practical

Four berths. Fuel station listed on the quay. No marina services beyond that. Sigean village lies about 2 km to the west.

Ashore

Réserve africaine de Sigean at 5 km by road, 300 hectares with free-ranging lions, giraffes and rhinoceroses. Bird observatory on the étang shore at Port-Mahon itself. Narbonne old city with the Palais des Archevêques and the cathédrale Saint-Just at about 15 km north.

History

The étang de Bages-Sigean has been salted and fished since Roman Narbonne. The Robine canal was rebuilt in the 17th century on the trace of the ancient Aude river bed to link Narbonne to the sea.