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Its total length (including all bends) from its source to its junction with the Rhine comprises about 291 km (181 miles), during which distance it descends 1565 m (5135 feet), while it drains an area is 17,620 km² (6804 square miles).

It rises in the great Aar glaciers , in the canton of Bern, and west of the Grimsel Pass . It runs east to the Grimsel Hospice, and then northwest through the Hasli valley, forming on the way the magnificent waterfall of the Handegg, 46 m (151 feet), past Guttannen, and pierces the limestone barrier of the Kirchet by a grand gorge, before reaching Meiringen, situated in a plain. A little beyond, near Brienz, the river expands into Lake Brienz, where it becomes navigable. Near the west end of that lake it receives its first important affluent, the Lütschine (left), and then runs across the swampy plain of the Bödeli, between Interlaken (left) and Unterseen (right), before again expanding in order to form Lake Thun.

Near the west end of that lake it receives on the left the Kander , which has just before been joined by the Simme ; on flowing out of the lake it passes Thun, and then circles the lofty bluff on which the town of Bern stands. It soon changes its northwesterly for a due westerly direction, but after receiving the Saane or Sarine (left) turns north till near Aarberg. There, in one of the big Swiss engineering feats of the 19th century, the river which had turned the countryside north of Bern into swamps with its frequent floodings, was diverted by the Hagneck Canal into Lake Biel, from the upper end of which it issues through the Nidau Canal and then runs east to BürenThere are several municipalities and communities have the name Buren . Pronunciation: BEE-rihn. It originates from the word buri meaning house and settlement in Old High German. in Germany Buren, Westphalia Buren, Steinfurt, in the municipality of Lotte,. The lake swallows the huge amounts of gravel and melted snow the river brings from the Alps and the former swamps have become fruitful plains, the vegetable garden of Switzerland.

Henceforth the Aar flows northeast for a long distance, past the ambassador town SolothurnThe city of Solothurn is the capital of the Canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. Architecture The city calls itself Switzerland's largest Baroque City. The old town was built between 1530 and 1792 and shows an architectural combination of Italian Grandezza (below which the Grosse EmmeThe Emme is a river in Switzerland. It rises in the area between Hohgant and Augstmatthorn in the Canton of Bern. The Emmental flows through and flows 80 km long Emme below Solothurn into the Aare. The drainage area is 983 km². The middle drainage is with flows in on the right), Aarburg (where it is joined by the Wigger, right), OltenOlten, Switzerland located in the relative middle of the country, is a small town with about 8000 citizens. Olten is within 30 minutes of Zurich, Bern, Basel and Luzern, by public transport. External links ., AarauAarau is the capital of the Swiss canton of Aargau. The inhabitants, mostly German-speaking, are mainly Protestants. Aarau is situated in the valley of the Aar, on the right bank of that river, and at the southern foot of the range of the Jura mountains., near which is the junction with the Suhr on the right, and Wildegg, where the Hallwiler Aa falls in on the right. A short way beyond, below BruggThere are communes and places that have the name Brugg In Switzerland Brugg, Switzerland, in the Canton of Aargau in Germany Brugg (Meckenbeuren, a locality of Meckenbeuren in the Bodenseekreis,(district) district, Baden-Wurttemberg Brugg (Bayern), a loca, it receives first the ReussThe River Reuss is one of the larger rivers in Switzerland. The Reuss, the Aar, and the Limmat come together in Brugg at the "Watercastle of Europe". Together they go (now called the Aar) into the Rhein, which flows through Germany into the North Sea. (right), and very shortly afterwards the LimmatThe Limmat is a river in Switzerland which rises in the city of Zurich at the north end of Lake Zurich and flows in northwestern direction until it flows after 35 km into the river Aare north of the small town of Brugg and shortly after the mouth of the R (right). It now turns due north, and soon becomes itself an affluent of the Rhine (left), which it surpasses in volume when they unite at Coblenz (Switzerland), opposite Waldshut (Germany).