The Regino River ( co, Fiume di Regino) is a small coastal river in the department of
Haute-Corse
Haute-Corse (; co, Corsica suprana , or ; en, Upper Corsica) is (as of 2022) an administrative department of France, consisting of the northern part of the island of Corsica. The corresponding departmental territorial collectivity merged w ...
, Corsica, France.
Course
The Regino is long.
It crosses the communes of
Belgodère
Belgodère (; it, Belgodere; co, Bargudè) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.
Population
See also
* Torra di Lozari
*Communes of the Haute-Corse department
The following is a list of the 236 ...
,
Feliceto
Feliceto (; co, U Fulgetu) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Haute-Corse department
The following is a list of the 236 communes of the Haute-Corse depart ...
,
Occhiatana,
Speloncato,
Santa-Reparata-di-Balagna and
Ville-di-Paraso.
The Regino rises in the canton of Feliceto to the west of the
San Parteo mountain.
It flows in a north-northwest direction, passing between the villages of Feliceto and Nessa, then turns to run in a northeast direction to its mouth on the sea.
It is dammed to the south of
L'Île-Rousse
L'Île-Rousse (; co, Lìsula, , or , ; it, Isola Rossa, ; ) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.
It was founded in 1758 by Pasquale Paoli to create a port that would not be in the hands of the Geno ...
to form the
Lac de Codole.
The dam was built in the early 1980s by the ''Société de Développement Agricole de la Corse'' (SOMIVAC) to supply water to the eastern part of the Balagne for drinking and irrigation.
Watershed
There are about of streams in the Reginu watershed, which covers more than .
The reservoir is supplied by a watershed of .
The Reginu valley has a Mediterranean climate, with little rain in the summer.
It regularly has strong west or southwest winds.
The landscape includes pastures, cultivated olive, almond and citrus groves, and abandoned scrub and forest.
Vegetation includes heather (''
Erica arborea
''Erica arborea'', the tree heath or tree heather, is a species of flowering plant (angiosperms) in the heather family Ericaceae, native to the Mediterranean Basin and Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa. It is also cultivated as an o ...
''), ''
Arbutus unedo
''Arbutus unedo'' is an evergreen shrub or small tree in the family Ericaceae, native to the Mediterranean region and western Europe. The tree is well known for its fruits, which bear some resemblance to the strawberry — hence the common na ...
'', oak forests (''
Quercus ilex'', ''
Quercus suber
''Quercus suber'', commonly called the cork oak, is a medium-sized, evergreen oak tree in the section ''Quercus'' sect. ''Cerris''. It is the primary source of cork for wine bottle stoppers and other uses, such as cork flooring and as the core ...
'' and some ''
Quercus pubescens
''Quercus pubescens'', the downy oak or pubescent oak, is a species of white oak (genus ''Quercus'' sect. ''Quercus'') native to southern Europe and southwest Asia, from northern Spain (Pyrenees) east to the Crimea and the Caucasus. It is also fo ...
''), lavender (''
Lavandula stoechas
''Lavandula stoechas'', the Spanish lavender or topped lavender (U.S.) or French lavender (U.K.), is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, occurring natively in several Mediterranean countries, including France, Spain, Portugal, ...
''),
rosemary
''Salvia rosmarinus'' (), commonly known as rosemary, is a shrub with fragrant, evergreen, needle-like leaves and white, pink, purple, or blue flowers, native to the Mediterranean region. Until 2017, it was known by the scientific name ''Rosmar ...
(''Rosmarinus officinalis''), ''
Genista corsica'' and many ''
Cistus
''Cistus'' (from the Greek ''kistos'') is a genus of flowering plants in the rockrose family Cistaceae, containing about 20 species (Ellul ''et al.'' 2002). They are perennial shrubs found on dry or rocky soils throughout the Mediterranean region ...
'' species.
Hydrology
Measurements of the river flow were taken at the Speloncato
eginostation from 1968 to 1989.
The watershed above this station covers .
Annual precipitation was calculated as .
The average flow of water throughout the year was .
Tributaries
The following streams (''ruisseaux'') are tributaries of the Regino, ordered by length:
* San Clemente
* Erbaiola
* Carignelli
* Piano
* Novalella
* Aldinu
* Cammariu
* Canne
* Saltu
* Campumignani
* Piombone
* Cervione
* Valdu Alle Grotte
Gallery
File:Feliceto_Lac_de_Codole.jpg, Lac de Codole
File:Belgodère pont du Regino à Lozari.jpg, Regino bridge at Lozari
File:Lozari le Régino en aval de son embouchure.jpg, Regino above its mouth
File:Belgodère_-_Aigrettes_dans_pré_en_bordure_du_Regino.jpg, Meadow on the edge of the Regino, facing the reed bed at its mouth
Notes
Sources
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Rivers of Haute-Corse
Rivers of France
Coastal basins of the Mediterranean Sea in Corsica