The San Leone is a river in the

Province of Agrigento The Province of Agrigento ( it, Provincia di Agrigento; scn, Pruvincia di Girgenti; officially ''Libero consorzio comunale di Agrigento'') is a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily in Italy, situated on its south-western coast. Follo ...

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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 ...

. Its main stream is long, and it has a drainage basin of .Bacino Idrografico del Fiume San Leone ed Area Intermedia compresa fra i Bacini del F. San Leone e del F. Naro (067)
Regione Siciliana, p. 89 Its source is in the commune of

Santa Elisabetta Santa Elisabetta ( Sicilian: ''Sabbetta'') is a small town (municipality) in the Province of Agrigento in the Italian region Sicily, located about south of Palermo and about north of Agrigento. Santa Elisabetta borders the following municipali ...

and it discharges into the

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in San Leone, a ''frazione'' of the city of

Agrigento Agrigento (; scn, Girgenti or ; grc, Ἀκράγας, translit=Akrágas; la, Agrigentum or ; ar, كركنت, Kirkant, or ''Jirjant'') is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy and capital of the province of Agrigento. It was one of ...

. It has various names along its course: at its source it is called ''Akragas'', further downstream ''Drago'', then ''Sant'Anna'' (the ancient ''Hypsas'')

Polybius Polybius (; grc-gre, Πολύβιος, ; ) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic period. He is noted for his work , which covered the period of 264–146 BC and the Punic Wars in detail. Polybius is important for his analysis of the mixed ...

is the only author who mentions the Agrigentine Hypsas by name, and he states distinctly that it was the river flowing at the foot of the hill of Agrigentum on the W. and SW. See Polybius

tr. by W. R. Paton (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1922–1927), IV : ''Fragments of Books 9-15'' (1925), 9.27. and the final 3 km until its mouth ''San Leone''. Its largest tributary is the San Biagio (river), San Biagio (also: ''San Benedetto''). In the 19th century it was known as ''Fiume di Girgenti''.Edward Herbert Bunbury
‘Agrigentum’
in ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography'', ed. by William Smith (London: Walton and Maberly; John Murray, 1854).

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Rivers of Italy Rivers of Sicily Rivers of the Province of Agrigento European drainage basins of the Mediterranean Sea {{Italy-river-stub