The Urtene, also called the Urtenenbach is a river in the Swiss Canton of Bern. It is an 18 km (11 mi) long tributary of the river Emme. It drains a portion of the central Bernese Midland and belongs to the catchment area of the Rhine. The Drainage basin of Urtene is about 96 km² (37 sq mi). The yearly average flow at the mouth of the river is 2.03 m³/s (72 cu ft/s).^[1]