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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 ...
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 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.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) ... Pages in category "Tributaries of the Po ...
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.
The source of the river, the Trebbia river spring, is in the Ligurian Apennines on the south slopes of Monte Prelà, to the south of Monte Antola in the comune of Torriglia, Province of Genoa. Monte Prelà, 1,407 m (4,616 ft) high, [1] [note 1] is part of the Antola massif. The spring is not on the peak but is at roughly 800 m (2,600 ft). [3]
Italian fisherman Dino Ferrari caught a 280-lb. Wels Catfish Thursday in Italy's Po Delta river, setting a new record. The U.K. Mirror reported that the catch is the world's largest wels catfish ...