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The Tanaro (pronounced ‘Tànaro’), known as Tanarus in ancient times, is a 276 km-long river in north-western Italy. It rises in the Ligurian Alps, close to the border with France and is the most significant right-side tributary to the Po in terms of length, size of drainage basin (partly Alpine, partly Apennine) and discharge. The Ligurian Alps are a mountain range in Italy. ...
The Po (Latin: Padus) is a river that flows 652 kilometers (405 miles) eastward across northern Italy, from Monviso (in the Cottian Alps) to the Adriatic Sea near Venice. ...
Bassignana is a small village in northwest Italy (Piedmont). ...
Alessandria (It. ...
A drainage basin is the area within the drainage basin divide (yellow outline), and drains the surface runoff and river discharge (blue lines) of a contiguous area. ...
In hydrology, the discharge of a river is the volume of water transported by it in a certain amount of time. ...
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The Ligurian Alps are a mountain range in Italy. ...
The Po (Latin: Padus) is a river that flows 652 kilometers (405 miles) eastward across northern Italy, from Monviso (in the Cottian Alps) to the Adriatic Sea near Venice. ...
A drainage basin is the area within the drainage basin divide (yellow outline), and drains the surface runoff and river discharge (blue lines) of a contiguous area. ...
The West face of the Petit Dru above the Chamonix valley near the Mer de Glace. ...
The Apennine Mountains (Greek: Απεννινος; Latin: Appenninus--in both cases used in the singular; Italian: Appennini) is a mountain range stretching 1000 km from the north to the south of Italy along its east coast, traversing the entire peninsula, and forming, as it were, the backbone of the country. ...
In hydrology, the discharge of a river is the volume of water transported by it in a certain amount of time. ...
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The Tanaro proper begins in Liguria at the confluence of two small torrents whose sources are in Piedmont: the Tanarello and the Nerone. Liguria is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions. ...
Piedmont (Italian: Piemonte) is a region of northwestern Italy. ...
The main source of the Tanarello is on the slopes of Monte Saccarello above Monesi, a village belonging to the commune of Triora (IM). This mountain straddles the French département of Alpes-Maritimes, the Piedmontese province of Cuneo and the Ligurian province of Imperia and marks the juncture of the watersheds between three drainage basins: that of the Tanaro itself, that of the Roya (Italian Roia), which rises in France but enters the sea at Ventimiglia; and the Argentina which flows into the Ligurian Sea at Taggia. Imperia (It. ...
The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France, roughly analogous to British counties. ...
Alpes_Maritimes is a département in the extreme southeast corner of France. ...
Cuneo is a province in the Piedmont region of Italy. ...
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A view of Ventimiglia, Liguria, Italy. ...
The Ligurian Sea. ...
Country Italy Region Liguria Province Province of Imperia (IM) Mayor Elevation 39 m Area 30. ...
The sources of the Negrone are some 10 km to the north, very close to the French border and south of Punta Marguereis.
Tributaries The main tributaries to the Tanaro are the Stura di Demonte from the left, and the Bormida and Belbo from the right. Stura di Demonte is a 110 km long river in north-western Italy (Piedmont). ...
Course The Tanaro flows past the towns Ceva, Alba, Asti and Alessandria before entering the Po near Bassignana in the Province of Alessandria. Ceva is a town in Italy in the province of Cuneo, region of Piedmont. ...
Alba is an important town of Piedmont, Italy, in the province of Cuneo. ...
Asti is a city and comune in the Piemonte or Piedmont region, in north-western Italy, about 80 kilometres west of Turin in the plain of the Tanaro river. ...
Alessandria (Lisandria in Piedmontese) is a strongly fortified and impressive town and capital of the Province of Alessandria. ...
Bassignana is a small village in northwest Italy (Piedmont). ...
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Regime The discharge is subject to a great deal of seasonal variation. Although, uniquely among the Po’s right-side tributaries, the river has an Alpine origin, the Ligurian Alps are of an insufficient altitude, and too close to the sea, to allow for the formation of snow fields or glaciers large enough to provide a steady source of water during the summer. Furthermore the Alpine zone forms only a part of the basin drained by the Tanaro. The seasonal regime of the river is therefore more typical of an Appenine torrent, with a maximum discharge (which can reach 1,700 m³/s) in spring and autumn and a very small rate of flow in the summer. Austrias longest glacier, the Pasterze, winds its 8 km (5 mile) route at the foot of Austrias highest mountain, the Grossglockner A glacier is a large, long-lasting river of ice that is formed on land and moves in response to gravity. ...
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Flood events The river is highly prone to flooding. During the two hundred year period 1801–2001 parts of the Tanaro basin were affected by floods on 136 occasions, the most devastating being those of November 1994 when the whole of the river valley was affected by severe flooding and the town of Alessandria was especially stricken.
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