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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.
Courtois Creek (locally / ˈ k oʊ t ə w eɪ /) is a 38.6-mile-long (62.1 km) [7] stream in southern Missouri, United States. It shares its name with the nearby town of Courtois and is in the Courtois Hills region of the Missouri Ozarks. According to the information in the Ramsay Place Names File at the University of Missouri, the creek was ...
The Po Valley, Po Plain, Plain of the Po, or Padan Plain (Pianura Padana, Italian: [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 ...
Courtois is an unincorporated community in southwestern Washington County, Missouri, United States, within the Courtois Hills region. It is located approximately 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Belgrade and 3.9 mi (6.3 km) northeast of Viburnum, Missouri in Iron County .
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.
Italy's Po River, the country's largest, hasn't seen rain in more than 110 days. The drought threatens Italy's drinking water supply, irrigation for farming, and hydroelectric power plants for energy.
Po→ Adriatic Sea The Curone (in Piedmontese and in Lombard Cròu ) is a torrent which flows for some 50 km) through the Italian regions Lombardy and Piedmont . It is a right tributary of the river Po .
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 ...