The San Leone is a river in the

Province of Agrigento The province of Agrigento (; ) is a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily, Italy, situated on its south-western coast. Following the suppression of the Sicilian provinces, it was replaced in 2015 by the Free Municipal Consortium of Ag ...

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. 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 and it discharges into the

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

Agrigento Agrigento (; or ) is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy and capital of the province of Agrigento. Founded around 582 BC by Greek colonists from Gela, Agrigento, then known as Akragas, was one of the leading cities during the golden ...

. 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 (; , ; ) was a Greek historian of the middle Hellenistic period. He is noted for his work , a universal history documenting the rise of Rome in the Mediterranean in the third and second centuries BC. It covered the period of 264–146 ...

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