The Tagnone is a small 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.
It is a tributary of the river
Tavignano
The Tavignano (; co, Tavignanu) is a river on the island of Corsica, France.
Course
The Tavignano is long.
In antiquity the river was known as the ''Rhotanus'' or Ῥότανος.
It crosses the communes of Aléria, Altiani, Antisanti, Casama ...
.
Course
The Tagnone is long.
It crosses the communes of
Aghione
Aghione is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.
The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Aghionais'' or ''Aghionaises''
Geography
Aghion is located on the eastern plains of Corsica 5 km west of ...
,
Aléria
Aléria (; Ancient Greek: /, ; Latin and Italian: ; co, U Cateraghju) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica, former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see. It includes the easternmost point in M ...
,
Pietroso and
Vezzani
Vezzani 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 department of France.
Th ...
.
The Tagnone rises in the commune of Vezzani to the northeast of the Punta Paglia.
It run east past the village of Vezzani, then runs in a generally southeast direction to its confluence with the Tavignano south of Aléria, near the mouth of the Tavignano on the
Tyrrhenian Sea
The Tyrrhenian Sea (; it, Mar Tirreno , french: Mer Tyrrhénienne , sc, Mare Tirrenu, co, Mari Tirrenu, scn, Mari Tirrenu, nap, Mare Tirreno) is part of the Mediterranean Sea off the western coast of Italy. It is named for the Tyrrhenian pe ...
.
The D343 road follows the Tagnone for much of its course.
Valley
The Tagnone valley lies between the Tavignanu and
Fium'Orbu valleys.
It is smaller than these valleys and more isolated.
The head of the valley is the ridge that connects the Punta della Pinghella to the Punta Paglia.
To the north the valley is flanked by relatively low slopes.
To the south it is separated from the Fium'Orbu valley by a line of heights that are above high until the edge of the coastal plain.
The villages of Vezzani and Pietroso cling to the slopes in the upper part of the narrow valley.
The environment on the north-facing slopes favors forestry, and
laricio pine
''Pinus nigra'', the Austrian pine or black pine, is a moderately variable species of pine, occurring across Southern Europe from the Iberian Peninsula to the eastern Mediterranean, on the Anatolian peninsula of Turkey, Corsica and Cyprus, as wel ...
s of the Rospa-Sorba national forest grow on the foothills of Punta Paglia above the villages.
The valley floor is not wide and flat enough for agriculture, which is confined to terraces around Vezzani, Pietroso and a few hamlets.
The slopes and river banks are covered by
maquis shrubland.
There are some traces of copper mining beside the RD343.
Hydrology
The river has been measured at Aghione
ont RD443from 2018 to 2021.
At this point it has a basin of .
The maximum instantaneous flow was recorded on 1 November 2018 as .
The maximum daily flow was record on 24 January 2020 as .
Tributaries
The following streams (''ruisseaux'') are tributaries of the Tagnone (ordered by length) and sub-tributaries:
* Codolo
* Puzzichello
** Spallina
** Caselle
** Don Carlo
* La Bacciana
** San Salvadore
* Barello
** Alziccia
* Botte
* Santa Maria
* Samuleto
* Aghione
* Forcalo
* Pietra Piana
* Le Vieux Tagnone
* Forci
* Lojani
* Bicolani
* Catastajo
* Vetrice
* Affitte
Notes
Sources
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Rivers of Haute-Corse
Rivers of France