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Paris enjoyed, in effect, a temperate climate all year round, even if – at that time – the climate was different. The topography is flat, with the exception of the surrounding hills of Montmartre (the highest point in Paris at 129 metres), Menilmontant, Chaillot, Belleville and Charonne. But above all it is the presence of a large river, such as the Seine which determined the presence of the first men in Paris. The Seine is navigable all the year. It forms, with its tributaries (the Aube, the Yonne and above all the Marne and the Oise), a veritable network of rivers, which allowed the first inhabitants to come and go over a wide area. In 1991, five canoes dating from between 3,400 and 4,200 BC were also discovered at Bercy. Thanks to this network, Paris became a river crossroads where commercial exchanges were easily carried out. In the middle of the Seine, the Ile de la Cité constituted an ideal refuge. A defensive site soon developed there. With banks close at each branch of the Seine, it is the historic heart of Paris.