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The Rubicon (Latin: Rubico; Italian: Rubicone [rubiˈkoːne]; [1] Romagnol: Rubicôn [rubiˈkoːŋ]) is a shallow river in northeastern Italy, just south of Cesena and north of Rimini. It was known as Fiumicino until 1933, when it was identified with the ancient river Rubicon, famously crossed by Julius Caesar in 49 BC.
The Rubicon River originates at 9,900 feet (3,018 m) near Clyde Lake in El Dorado County. It flows north-northwest for approximately 8 mi (12.9 km) until it reaches Rubicon Reservoir. The river then travels northwest and within 4.8 mi (7.7 km) of the Rubicon Reservoir is met by Highland Creek, Miller Creek, and the Little Rubicon River.
The phrase "crossing the Rubicon" is an idiom that means "passing a point of no return". [1] Its meaning comes from allusion to the crossing of the river Rubicon from the north by Julius Caesar in early January 49 BC.
1838 map from Britannica 7th edition, when the river was called Buenaventura River. View of the American River from below the Guy West Bridge on the Sacramento State campus The American River is a 30-mile-long (50 km) river in California that runs from the Sierra Nevada mountain range to its confluence with the Sacramento River in downtown ...
The Rubicon River is the largest tributary watershed, at 315.4 sq mi (817 km 2), which is nearly three times the size of the Middle Fork's own drainage area above their confluence. [2] Almost the entire watershed is forested, with the exception of the alpine zone at the highest elevations near the Sierra Crest , and some areas of grassland ...
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Rubicon Trail, from the official El Dorado County, California website; Friends of the Rubicon is a coalition of trail users that do volunteer work on the Rubicon Trail. Rubicon Trail Patrol, A group of volunteers who educate users on the trail. Rubicon Trail track files and GPS coordinates; commercial Rubicon Trail information site
The Rubicon Canal is a canal in Cape Coral, Florida. The canal is over 200 feet wide and has several basins with intersecting canals that provide access to the Gulf of Mexico via the Caloosahatchee River .