The Chiascio is a
river
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 wate ...
of
Umbria
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, central
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...
. It is a left tributary of the
Tiber
The Tiber ( ; it, Tevere ; la, Tiberis) is the third-longest river in Italy and the longest in Central Italy, rising in the Apennine Mountains in Emilia-Romagna and flowing through Tuscany, Umbria, and Lazio, where it is joined by the Riv ...
. It is 95 km long, and its drainage basin covers 1962 km
2. Its largest tributary is the
Topino
The Topino is a river in Umbria, central Italy. It was known in ancient times as ''Supunna'' by Umbri and later in Latin as ''Tinia''
and is mentioned by Dante Alighieri in the ''Canto'' XI of the ''Paradise''. It is the main tributary of the Chi ...
, which covers 60% of its drainage basin.
[Agenzia regionale di protezione ambientale dell'Umbria]
Caratterizzazione dei bacini idrografici e dei corpi idrici superficiali
Sottobacino Chiascio , p. 7 of 22.
References
External links
* http://www.arpa.umbria.it/canale.asp?id=423
Rivers of the Province of Perugia
Rivers of Italy
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