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Geothermal energy in Italy is mainly used for electric power production. [1] Italy is located above a relatively thin crust, with four large areas of underground heat: the first is Tuscany, with the Larderello fields. the second is in Campania, the Phlegraean Fields; the third, very large and not fully explored, in the south of the Tyrrhenian ...
Italy was the first country in the world to exploit geothermal energy to produce electricity. [3] The high geothermal gradient that forms part of the peninsula makes potentially exploitable also other provinces: research carried out in the 1960s and 1970s identifies potential geothermal fields in Lazio and Tuscany , as well as in most volcanic ...
The record low temperature in Italy is −49.6 °C (−57.3 °F), recorded on 10 February 2013 in the Alps on the Pale di San Martino plateau, in Trentino-Alto Adige, [74] while near sea level is −24.8 °C (−12.6 °F), recorded on 12 January 1985 at San Pietro Capofiume, frazione of Molinella, in Emilia-Romagna. [75]
National and regional parks in Italy. The national parks of Italy are protected natural areas terrestrial, marine, fluvial or lacustrine, which contain one or more intact ecosystems (or only partially altered by anthropic interventions) and/or one or more physical, geological, geomorphological, biological formations of national and international interest, for naturalistic, scientific, cultural ...
Italian rivers are categorized into two main groups: the Alpine-Po river rivers and the Apennine-island rivers. [24] The longest Italian river is the Po (652 km or 405 mi), which flows from the Monviso, runs through the entire Po Valley from west to east, and then flows, with a delta, into the Adriatic Sea. In addition to being the longest, it ...
Forget Italy’s most famous active volcano, Mt. Vesuvius, which destroyed Pompei in 79 AD. The most dangerous volcanic threat in Italy right now is one you’ve probably never heard of: Campi ...
Italy is in the Palearctic realm Ecoregions are listed by biome. Temperate coniferous forests. Alps conifer and mixed forests; Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests. Po Basin mixed forests; Apennine deciduous montane forests; Dinaric Mountains mixed forests; Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrub. Italian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous ...
The ecoregion extends from the southern Po Basin in northern Italy to the southern Apennine Mountains of Basilicata and Calabria.It covers the lowlands of central Italy, including the valleys of the Arno and Tiber rivers, the Tyrrhenian Sea (western) coast of central Italy and Liguria, extending into southeastern France, and central Italy's Adriatic coast, as well as the middle elevations of ...