The Chisone (in

Piedmontese Piedmontese (; autonym: or , in it, piemontese) is a language spoken by some 2,000,000 people mostly in Piedmont, northwestern region of Italy. Although considered by most linguists a separate language, in Italy it is often mistakenly regard ...

''Chison'' or ''Cleson'') is a Italian torrent, which runs through

Pragelato Pragelato (also ''Pragelà''; Vivaro-Alpine: ''Prajalats'', French: Prajalats) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about west of Turin, in the upper Val Chisone. The name ' ...

, Fenestrelle, Perosa Argentina and

Pinerolo Pinerolo (; pms, Pinareul ; french: Pignerol; oc, Pineròl) is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, northwestern Italy, southwest of Turin on the river Chisone. The Lemina torrent has its source at the boundary ...

in the Metropolitan City of Turin. It is a tributary of the

Pellice The Pellice (in Piedmontese ''Pélis'') is a Italian torrent, which runs through the Metropolitan City of Turin. The stream is a tributary of the Po River, into which it flows near Villafranca Piemonte. Geography The stream is formed at the w ...

, which in turn is a tributary of the river Po. Although classified as a torrent, there is no period of the year at which the Chisone runs dry.

Geography

The stream is formed at the foot of

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in the Cottian Alps and initially runs north-northwest through the Parco Naturale della

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. The course then follows a semi-circular path through the Val Chisone passing to the east, the north and then to the west of Monte Albergian. Near Perosa Argentina it receives the waters of the

Germanasca The Germanasca (also in Piedmontese ''Germanasca'') is a Italian torrent, which runs through the Metropolitan City of Turin. It is a tributary of the Chisone, into which it flows near Perosa Argentina. The valley formed by the river is known as ...

, its main tributary. The Chisone enters the Pellice some to the east of Pinerolo, the most important of the settlements on its course. The valley formed by the river, running from

to the

Po Valley The Po Valley, Po Plain, Plain of the Po, or Padan Plain ( it, Pianura Padana , or ''Val Padana'') is a major geographical feature of Northern Italy. It extends approximately in an east-west direction, with an area of including its Venetic e ...

, is known as Val Chisone.

Notes and references

Bibliography

The Italian article cites among its sources: * Torino, I.G.C., Cartina n. 1 ''Valli di Susa, Chisone e Germanasca,''

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