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The Po has a drainage area of 74,000 km 2 in all, 70,000 of those being in Italy, of which 41,000 is in montane environments and 29,000 on the plain. [2] The slope of the Po's river valley decreases from 0.35% in the west to 0.14% in the east, a low gradient.
The Po Valley, Po Plain, Plain of the Po, or Padan Plain (Italian: Pianura Padana [pjaˈnuːra paˈdaːna] or Val Padana) is a major geographical feature of northern Italy. It extends approximately 650 km (400 mi) in an east-west direction, with an area of 46,000 km 2 (18,000 square miles) including its Venetic extension not actually related to ...
View of the confluence of the Frigidolfo branch (left) and the Narcanello branch (right), Ponte di Legno River Oglio at Berzo Demo, Val Camonica. The Oglio (Italian:; Latin: Ollius or Olius; Lombard: Òi, Cremonese: Ùi) is a left-side tributary of the river Po in Lombardy, Italy. It is 280 kilometres (170 mi) long.
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.
The valley gives rise to the longest river in Italy, the Po, before it enters the Pianura Padana (or the Plain of the Po). It has a length of some 32 km, from Saluzzo to Crissolo, and is home to the Monviso mountain. It is bounded by the Val Pellice, Valle Varaita and the Valle del Guil.
This was the first major action in the Allied 15th Army Group's big spring offensive to push the German Army back to and across the River Po and out of Italy. The breakthrough on the British Eighth Army's front was to be made through the Argenta Gap, crossing the Rivers Senio and Santerno towards the Po at Ferrara and releasing armour to swing left and race across country to meet the advancing ...
The Ticino joins the Po a few kilometres downstream (along the Ticino) from Pavia. [2] It is about 248 kilometres (154 mi) long. The stretch of river between Lake Maggiore and the confluence in the Po is included in the Parco naturale lombardo della Valle del Ticino, a Nature reserve included by UNESCO in the World Network of Biosphere Reserves ...
The Dora Riparia (Italian: [ˈdɔːra riˈpaːrja]; Piedmontese: Dòira Rivaira; French: Doire Ripaire or Doire; [1] Latin: Duria minor) is an alpine river, a left-bank tributary of the Po. It is 125 kilometres (78 mi) long (of which 5 km is in France), [ 1 ] with a 1,231 square kilometres (475 sq mi) drainage basin .