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The longest river originating in Italy is the Drava, which flows for 724 km (450 mi), while the river flowing the most kilometers in Italy is the 652 km (405 mi) long Po. Rivers in Italy total about 1,200, [ 1 ] and give rise, compared to other European countries , to a large number of marine mouths.
The Po (/ p oʊ / POH, Italian:) [3] is the longest river in Italy. It flows eastward across northern Italy, starting from the Cottian Alps . The river's length is either 652 km (405 mi) or 682 km (424 mi), if the Maira , a right bank tributary, is included.
One of the main right bank tributaries of the Po, it flows through the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy. The Secchia in an 1847 map It is 172 kilometres (107 mi) long, and has a drainage basin with a catchment area of 2,292 square kilometres (885 sq mi), alternating between aridity in the dry summer months and higher flows during the wet ...
The "Porto Viro cut-off" in 1604 diverted the Po river before the confluence of the Tartaro-Canalbianco; since then the former channel of the Po delta named Po di Levante has been the final part of the river. Currently it flows by the modern Adria; it communicates, by canals, with the Po river and the Adige river.
Po (river) (2 C, 2 P) S. Soča (4 C, 2 P) T. Tiber (3 C, 8 P) ... Lamone (river) Lao (Italian river) Lato (river) Lavagna (river) Lemina; Lemme; Leno (stream ...
Comacchio by night. The Idrovia Ferrarese (waterway of Ferrara) is a 70 km stretch of navigable water in the Italian Province of Ferrara, falling within the Po Delta Park.It links the river Po at Pontelagoscuro (frazione of Ferrara) to the Adriatic at Porto Garibaldi (frazione of Comacchio).
The Olona (Olona in Italian; Ulona, [1] Urona or Uòna [2] in Western Lombard) is an Italian river belonging to the Po Basin, 71 kilometres (44 mi) long, [3] [4] [5] that runs through the Province of Varese and Metropolitan City of Milan whose course is developed entirely in Lombardy.
On 3 April 2014, the Italian Chamber of Deputies gave its final approval to Law n.56/2014 which involved the transformation of the Italian provinces into "institutional bodies of second level". According to the 2014 reform, each province is headed by a President (or Commissioner) assisted by a legislative body, the Provincial Council, and an ...