Monte Toc, nicknamed the walking mountain by locals due to its tendency to experience landslides, is a mountain on the border between
Veneto
Veneto (, ; vec, Vèneto ) or Venetia is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about five million, ranking fourth in Italy. The region's capital is Venice while the biggest city is Verona.
Veneto was part of the Roman Empire unt ...
and
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
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in
Northern Italy
Northern Italy ( it, Italia settentrionale, it, Nord Italia, label=none, it, Alta Italia, label=none or just it, Nord, label=none) is a geographical and cultural region in the northern part of Italy. It consists of eight administrative region ...
best known for the
Vajont Dam
The Vajont Dam (or Vaiont Dam) is a disused dam in northern Italy. It is one of the tallest dams in the world, with a height of . It is in the valley of the Vajont River under Monte Toc, in the municipality of Erto e Casso, north of Venice ...
, which was built at the mountain's base in 1960. In
Friulian, the mountain's name is the abbreviation of "patoc", meaning "rotten" or "soggy".
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On October 9, 1963, 260 million cubic metres
[ of rock slid down the side of Mount Toc and plunged into the reservoir created by the Vajont Dam, causing a ]megatsunami
A megatsunami is a very large wave created by a large, sudden displacement of material into a body of water.
Megatsunamis have quite different features from ordinary tsunamis. Ordinary tsunamis are caused by underwater tectonic activity (movemen ...
250 metres high over the dam wall and destroying the town of Longarone
Longarone is a town and ''comune'' on the banks of the Piave in the province of Belluno, in northeast Italy. It is situated from Belluno.
4,642 people work all together in Longarone, which is 112.62% of the total population, with most actual in ...
and its suburbs.
References
External links
* Excerpt from
''Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams''
by Patrick McCully
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Mountains of Veneto
Mountains of Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Mountains of the Alps