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Poschiavino River
Poschiavino is an long river that rises in the Swiss canton of Graubünden and flows into the Italian province of Sondrio. The majority of the river is in Switzerland, with just in Italy. The source of the river lies at above sea level in the Rhaetian Alps, close to the Livigno Pass. From here the river flows south through the upper Val Poschiavo, past the settlements of La Rösa, Poschiavo and Le Prese, before entering the long Lago di Poschiavo. Below the lake, the river passes the settlements of Brusio and Campocologno before crossing the border into Italy. It flows into the Adda in Tirano, at above sea level. The water of the river and its tributaries is used to power several hydro-electric plant Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies one sixth of the world's electricity, almost 4500 TWh in 2020, which is more than all other renewable sources combined and ...s owned by Repower AG. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poschiavo
Poschiavo ( it, Poschiavo, lmo, Pusciaaf, german: Puschlav, rm, Puschlav) is a municipality in the Bernina Region in the canton of Grisons in Switzerland. History Poschiavo is first mentioned in 824 as ''in Postclave'' though this comes from a later copy of the original document. In 1140 it was mentioned as ''de Pusclauio''. It was formerly known by the German name of ''Puschlav''. It owes its beauty to the imposing Renaissance style of its courtly 19th century architecture. These palazzi were built by prosperous local residents who had made their fortune abroad, particularly in Spain. Geography Poschiavo has an area, , of . Of this area, 19.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 32.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.8% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (46.2%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). Until 2017, the municipality was located in the Poschiavo sub-district of the Bernina district, after 2017 it was part of the new Bernin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lago Di Poschiavo
Lago di Poschiavo is a natural lake in the Val di Poschiavo in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. Geography It has an elevation is , a length of , a surface area of and a maximum depth of . The lake is both fed and drained by the Poschiavino river and drains to the south, with its water eventually reaching the Mediterranean via the rivers Adda (river), Adda and Po (river), Po. The lake lies within the municipality of Poschiavo, and the villages of Le Prese and Miralago lie at its northern and southern ends respectively. The Bernina railway line runs alongside the western side of the lake, with stations at Le Prese and Miralago. The main valley road (Hauptstrasse 29) follows a higher route on the same side of the lake. A level hiking trail circumnavigates the lake, with some sections on the more precipitous eastern side in tunnel. The lake was first referred to in 1010, when the newly founded Basilica of Sant'Abbondio, monastery of San Abbondio in Como was granted fishing rights o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivers Of Graubünden
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water. Small rivers can be referred to using names such as creek, brook, rivulet, and rill. There are no official definitions for the generic term river as applied to geographic features, although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size. Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location; examples are "run" in some parts of the United States, "burn" in Scotland and northeast England, and "beck" in northern England. Sometimes a river is defined as being larger than a creek, but not always: the language is vague. Rivers are part of the water cycle. Water generally collects in a river from precipitation through a drainage basin from surface runoff and other sources such as groundwater recharge, springs, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivers Of The Province Of Sondrio
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water. Small rivers can be referred to using names such as Stream#Creek, creek, Stream#Brook, brook, rivulet, and rill. There are no official definitions for the generic term river as applied to Geographical feature, geographic features, although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size. Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location; examples are "run" in some parts of the United States, "Burn (landform), burn" in Scotland and northeast England, and "beck" in northern England. Sometimes a river is defined as being larger than a creek, but not always: the language is vague. Rivers are part of the water cycle. Water generally collects in a river from Precipitation (meteorology), precipitation through a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivers Of Switzerland
The following is a list of rivers in Switzerland: Rivers by length (> 100 km, only the length in Switzerland) #Rhine - 375 km - 36,494 km2 #Aare (or Aar) - 295 km - 17,779 km2 #Rhône - 264 km - 10,403 km2 #Reuss - 158 km - 3,425 km2 #Linth and Limmat together - 140 km - 2,416 km2 # Saane/La Sarine - 128 km - 1,892 km2 # Thur - 125 km Rivers by drainage area (> 1000 km2, only the area in Switzerland) #Rhine - 375 km - 36,494 km2 #Aare - 295 km - 17,779 km2 #Rhône - 264 km - 10,403 km2 #Reuss - 158 km - 3,425 km2 #Linth / Limmat - 140 km - 2,416 km2 #Inn - 104 km - 2,150 km2 # Saane/La Sarine - 128 km - 1,892 km2 # Thur - 125 km - 1,724 km2 #Ticino - 91 km - 1,616 km2 # Hinterrhein - 57.3 km - 1,693 km2 #Vorderrhein - 67.5 km - 1,514 km2 #Doubs - 74 km - 1,310 km2 # Kander - 44 km - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Repower AG
Repower (until May 2010 ''Rätia Energie AG'') is an international energy utility with its operational headquarters in Poschiavo (Canton Graubünden, Switzerland). The company's history goes back more than 100 years, with the foundation in 1904 of Kraftwerke Brusio AG. Its key markets include Switzerland and Italy. The group operates along the entire value chain, from generation and trading to sales. The Repower Group employs 607 people, plus 504 sales agents in Italy and 35 apprentices in Switzerland. History For more than 100 years, Repower has been one of the largest providers of electricity in Switzerland. Founded in 1904 as ''Kraftwerke Brusio AG'', the same year the company started construction of its first power plant − at the time the largest high-pressure hydropower installation in Europe − in Campocologno in the Poschiavo region of Canton Graubünden, Switzerland. Proximity to the Italian border precipitated the company's involvement in international projects an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hydro-electric Plant
Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies one sixth of the world's electricity, almost 4500 TWh in 2020, which is more than all other renewable sources combined and also more than nuclear power. Hydropower can provide large amounts of low-carbon electricity on demand, making it a key element for creating secure and clean electricity supply systems. A hydroelectric power station that has a dam and reservoir is a flexible source, since the amount of electricity produced can be increased or decreased in seconds or minutes in response to varying electricity demand. Once a hydroelectric complex is constructed, it produces no direct waste, and almost always emits considerably less greenhouse gas than fossil fuel-powered energy plants. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tirano
Tirano ( lmo, Tiràn, german: Thiran) is a town in Valtellina, located in the province of Sondrio in northern Italy. It has 9,053 inhabitants (2016) and is adjacent to the Switzerland-Italy border. The river Adda flows through the town. Main sights Located nearby is the Catholic shrine of the Madonna di Tirano, a major tourist attraction. The shrine is dedicated to the appearance of the Blessed Mother to Mario Degli Omodei on September 29, 1504, an event religious pilgrims credit with ending a pestilence. The Museo Etnografico Tiranese (MET) is an ethnographic museum and located nearby the Basilica Madonna di Tirano in an 18th-century Palazzo, the Casa del Penitenziere (Penitent's House). The museum of Palazzo Salis in the old town of Tirano is an example of the use of trompe l'oeil to create the illusion of architectural features. Transportation Tirano has two neighboring railway stations. One, a standard gauge station, is operated by Trenitalia, the state railway compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campocologno
Brusio ( Lombard: ''Brüs'', Romansh ''Brüsch'') is a municipality in the Bernina Region in the canton of Grisons in Switzerland. History Brusio is first mentioned in 1106 as ''Bruse''. It was first mentioned as Brusio in 1212. Previously it was known as Romansh: ''Brüsch'' and german: link=no, Brüs. The monastery of San Romerio (earlier, San Remigio) was founded above the Val Poschiavo before 1055. Soon there after the village of Brusio was settled on the valley floor below the monastery. The monastery influenced this early stage of settlement and growth in the village. By 1212 it was an independent municipality with its own dean or senior pastor who represented the municipality's interests. In the 13th Century, the entire Val Poschiavo became part of the fief of the Bishop of Chur. During the 14th Century, Brusio was part of the practically (although not officially) independent municipality of Poschiavo. Around 1498, Poschiavo (with Brusio) joined the League of God's Hous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brusio
Brusio ( Lombard: ''Brüs'', Romansh ''Brüsch'') is a municipality in the Bernina Region in the canton of Grisons in Switzerland. History Brusio is first mentioned in 1106 as ''Bruse''. It was first mentioned as Brusio in 1212. Previously it was known as Romansh: ''Brüsch'' and german: link=no, Brüs. The monastery of San Romerio (earlier, San Remigio) was founded above the Val Poschiavo before 1055. Soon there after the village of Brusio was settled on the valley floor below the monastery. The monastery influenced this early stage of settlement and growth in the village. By 1212 it was an independent municipality with its own dean or senior pastor who represented the municipality's interests. In the 13th Century, the entire Val Poschiavo became part of the fief of the Bishop of Chur. During the 14th Century, Brusio was part of the practically (although not officially) independent municipality of Poschiavo. Around 1498, Poschiavo (with Brusio) joined the League of God's Hous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Prese
Le Prese is a village in the Val Poschiavo in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It lies at above sea level at the northern end of Lago di Poschiavo, and is in the municipality of Poschiavo, some south of the village of the same name. The Poschiavino river enters the lake by the village. Both the Hauptstrasse 29, main road through the Val Poschiavo and the Bernina railway pass through the village, with the railway sharing the carriageway with road traffic in places, and running alongside the road in others. Le Prese railway station is situated in the centre of the village, on the shared carriageway section of the line. In the middle of the 19th century, Le Prese was developed as a spa town, with the 1856 construction of the spa building and further improvements in 1861. It sold itself as the ideal acclimatization station between the north of Italy and the health resorts of the Engadin. The sulphur spa was well frequented until 1914. The spa (''Albergo Bagni Le Prese''/''Kur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adda (river)
The Adda (Latin ''Abdua'', or ''Addua''; in Lombard ''Ada'' or, again, ''Adda'' in local dialects where the double consonants are marked) is a river in North Italy, a tributary of the Po. It rises in the Alps near the border with Switzerland and flows through Lake Como. The Adda joins the Po a few kilometres upstream of Cremona. It is long. The highest point of the drainage basin is the summit of la Spedla (a subpeak of Piz Bernina), at . Towns along the river Adda include Bormio, Tirano, Sondrio, Bellagio and Lecco (both on Lake Como), Brivio and Lodi. Course The Adda's true source is in Alpisella valley near the head of the Fraele glen, but its volume is increased by the union with several smaller streams, near the town of Bormio, at the Rhaetian Alps. Thence it flows first southwest, then due west, through the fertile Valtellina, passing Tirano, where the Poschiavino falls in on the right bank, and Sondrio, where the Mallero joins, also on the right. This first h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
