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Acquafraggia
Acquafraggia (also Acqua Fraggia) is a short and frequently steep ''Torrent (stream), torrente'', or seasonal stream, of the province of Sondrio in Lombardy, north Italy. Its source is on Pizzo del Lago, at an elevation of , on the north side of the Val Bregaglia and close to the Switzerland, Swiss border which here marks the limit of the Po River, Po drainage basin. From here it flows in a southwesterly direction within the territory of the comune, commune of Piuro until it joins the Mera River (Switzerland), Mera as a right tributary at the locality of Borgonuovo, a little upstream from Chiavenna and the mouth of the Val Bregaglia. At an early point of its course the stream forms the lake of Acqua Fraggia at an elevation of {{convert, 2043, m, ft; it then runs through two hanging valleys of glaciation, glacial origins, emerging from each in a series of waterfalls, which were noted by Leonardo da Vinci in the Codex Atlanticus. This has been a protected area since 1983. File:Casca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mera (Lake Como)
The Mera ( lmo, Maira) is a river in Switzerland and Italy. Its source is near the Piz Mungiroi, in the Grisons, Switzerland. First, it flows east in the direction to Maloja Pass, then turns west through the Val Bregaglia (german: Bergell) and crosses the border to Italy in Castasegna (Dogana). It is joined by the Acquafraggia close to Piuro, and then turns south at Chiavenna, just before it receives the river Liro from the right at Prata Camportaccio. The Mera ends in Lake Como, near Sorico Sorico ( Comasco: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about north of Milan and about northeast of Como. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,188 and an area of .All demo ... in the Province of Como.https://translate.yandex.ru/?utm_source=main_stripe_big&lang=ru-en&text=meri%20%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%20%D0%B2%20%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BF%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%20%D1%8F%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B5 References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
