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The Po (Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
: Padus, , Ligurian
Ligurian language

The Ligurian language was spoken in pre-Roman times and into the Roman era by an ancient people of north-western Italy and south-eastern France known as the Ligures....
: Bo, Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
: Eridanus) is a river that flows 652 km (405 miles) (682 km by considering the length of the system from the source of Maira River,a right side tributary) eastward across northern Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
, from Monviso (in the Cottian Alps
Cottian Alps

The Cottian Alps are a mountain range in the south-western part of the Alps. They form the border between France and Italy . The Maddalena Pass separates them from the Maritime Alps; the Col du Mont Cenis separates them from the Graian Alps; the Col du Galibier separates them from the Dauphin? Alps....
) to the Adriatic Sea
Adriatic Sea

The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine Mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges....
 near Venice
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
. It has a drainage area of 71,000 km˛ and is the longest river in Italy.

It goes through many important Italian towns, including Turin
Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
 (Torino) and (indirectly) Milan
Milan

Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....
 (Milano), in Lombardy
Lombardy

Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region....
.






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The Po (Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
: Padus, , Ligurian
Ligurian language

The Ligurian language was spoken in pre-Roman times and into the Roman era by an ancient people of north-western Italy and south-eastern France known as the Ligures....
: Bo, Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
: Eridanus) is a river that flows 652 km (405 miles) (682 km by considering the length of the system from the source of Maira River,a right side tributary) eastward across northern Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
, from Monviso (in the Cottian Alps
Cottian Alps

The Cottian Alps are a mountain range in the south-western part of the Alps. They form the border between France and Italy . The Maddalena Pass separates them from the Maritime Alps; the Col du Mont Cenis separates them from the Graian Alps; the Col du Galibier separates them from the Dauphin? Alps....
) to the Adriatic Sea
Adriatic Sea

The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine Mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges....
 near Venice
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
. It has a drainage area of 71,000 km˛ and is the longest river in Italy.

It goes through many important Italian towns, including Turin
Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
 (Torino) and (indirectly) Milan
Milan

Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....
 (Milano), in Lombardy
Lombardy

Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region....
. It is connected to Milan through a net of channels
Channel (geography)

In physical geography, a channel is the physical confine of a river, slough or ocean strait consisting of a bed and banks.A channel is also the natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar , bay, or any shallow body of water....
 called navigli
Navigli

The navigli was a system of navigable and interconnected canals around Milan, in Lombardy, Northern Italy.Five canals made up the system:* Naviglio Grande...
, which Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italy polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, Painting, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer....
 helped design. Near the end of its course, it creates a wide delta
River delta

A delta is a landform that is created at the mouth of a river where that river flows into an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, reservoir, flat arid area, or another river....
 (with hundreds of small channels and five main ones, called Po di Maestra, Po della Pila, Po delle Tolle, Po di Gnocca and Po di Goro) at the southern part of which is Comacchio
Comacchio

Comacchio is a town of Emilia Romagna, Italy, in the province of Ferrara, 48 km by road from the town of Ferrara, in the centre of the lagoon of Valli di Comacchio, just north of the present mouth of the River Reno....
, an area famous for eel
Eel

True eels are an order of fish, which consists of four suborders, 19 Family s, 110 genera and approximately 600 species. Most eels are predators....
s. The Po valley corresponds to the Roman Cisalpine Gaul
Cisalpine Gaul

Cisalpine Gaul was the Roman name for a geographical area , in the territory of modern-day northern Italy , inhabited by the Celts. Sometimes referred to as Gallia Citerior , Provincia Ariminum, or Gallia Togata ....
, divided in Cispadane Gaul (South of the Po) and Transpadane Gaul (North of the Po).

The vast valley around the Po is called the Po Valley
Po Valley

The Po Valley, Po Plain, Plain of the Po, or Padan Plain is a major geographical feature of Italy. It extends some 600 km in an east-west direction, including its Veneto extension not actually related to the Po river; it runs from the Western Alps to the Adriatic Sea....
 (Italian Pianura Padana); in time it became the main industrial area of the country. The river is subject to the authority of a special authority, the Magistrato delle Acque.

The main products of the farms around the river are cereal
Cereal

Cereals, or cereal grains, are mostly Poaceae cultivated for their edible brans or fruit seeds . Cereal grains are grown in greater quantities and provide more energy worldwide than any other type of crop; they are therefore staple foods....
s including - unusually for Europe - rice
Rice

Rice is a staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in tropical Latin America, and East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, making it the second-most consumed cereal grain, after maize....
.

In 2005, water from the Po was found to contain "staggering" amounts of benzoylecgonine
Benzoylecgonine

Benzoylecgonine is the primary metabolite of cocaine. It is formed in the liver by the metabolism of cocaine, catalysed by carboxylesterases, and subsequently excreted in the urine....
, which is excreted
Excretion

Excretion is the process of eliminating waste products of metabolism and other non-useful materials. It is an essential process in all forms of life....
 by cocaine
Cocaine

Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine....
 users in urine
Urine

Urine is a liquid waste product of the body secreted by the kidneys by a process of filtration from blood called urination and excreted through the urethra....
. Based on these figures, cocaine consumption was estimated to be about 4 kg daily, or 27 doses per day per thousand young adults in areas that feed into the river--a number nearly three times higher than previous estimates.
View of the Po From Turin

Tributaries

Tributaries
Tributary

A tributary is a stream or river which flows into a Mainstem river. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea. Tributaries and the mainstem river serve to drain the surrounding drainage basin of its surface water and groundwater by leading the water out into an ocean or some other large body of water....
 include (R from the right side, L from the left, looking downstream
Downstream

The term downstream has several possible meanings:In geography, downstream means literally away from the source of a stream or river, and in meteorology, away from the source of an air parcel or mass, along the normal direction of water or air flow....
):
  • Pellice (L)
  • Varaita
    Varaita

    The Varaita is a 75 km river of the Province of Cuneo in north-west Italy. It is the first right tributary of the Po River.The river springs at an elevation of some 2,500 m on the slopes of Monviso, in the Cottian Alps near the France, then proceeds through the valley named after it?the Valle Varaita?where it passes through centres includi...
     (R)
  • Maira
    Maira

    The Maira is an Italy river, a right tributary of the Po River, which runs through the province of Cuneo in eastern Piedmont. Its source is in the Cottian Alps near the Col de Mary on the France border....
     (R)


  • Dora Riparia
    Dora Riparia

    The Dora Riparia is an Italy river, a left-hand tributary of the Po River. It is 125 km long, with a 1,231 km? drainage basin. It originates in the Cottian Alps, close to the Col de Montgen?vre in France, where it is called the Piccola Dora....
     (L)
  • Stura di Lanzo
    Stura di Lanzo

    Stura di Lanzo is a 65 km long river in north-western Italy . It is formed from several tributaries near Lanzo Torinese. It flows into the river Po River in Turin....
     (L)
  • Orco
    Orco

    The Orco is an Italy river. It originates in the glaciers of the Piedmontese slopes of Gran Paradiso, and after about 90 km reaches the Po River near Chivasso....
     (L)
  • Dora Baltea
    Dora Baltea

    Dora Baltea ['d?ra 'baltea] or Doire Balt?e , is a river in northern Italy. It is a tributary of the Po River, and is about 160 km long. It originates by Mont Blanc as the confluence of the Dora di Ferret, fed by the Pr? de Bar Glacier in Val Ferret, and the Dora di Veny, fed by the Miage Glacier in Val Veny....
     (L)
  • Sesia
    Sesia River

    The Sesia is a river in north-western Italy, tributary to the Po River. Its sources are the glaciers of Monte Rosa at the border with Switzerland....
     (L)
  • Tanaro
    Tanaro River

    The Tanaro , known as Tanarus in ancient times, is a 276 Kilometre-long river in north-western Italy. It rises in the Ligurian Alps, close to the border with France and is the most significant right-side tributary to the Po River in terms of length, size of drainage basin and Discharge ....
     (R)
  • Scrivia
    Scrivia

    The Scrivia is a right tributary of the Po River, in northern Italy. It runs through Liguria, Piedmont, and Lombardy....
     (R)
  • Agogna
    Agogna

    The Agogna is a narrow 140 km long river which runs through the Italy regions of Piedmont and Lombardy. It is a left side tributary of the river Po....
     (L)
  • Ticino
    Ticino River

    The river Ticino is a tributary of the Po River. It rises in the St. Gotthard massif in Switzerland and flows through Lake Maggiore. The Ticino joins the Po a few kilometres downstream of Pavia....
     (L)
  • Olona
    Olona

    The Olona is a 131 km long Italy river, which runs through the provinces of Province of Varese, Province of Milan and Province of Pavia.The Olona has more than one source; in fact it has six main springs....
     (L)
  • Lambro
    Lambro

    The Lambro is a river of Lombardy, northern Italy, a left tributary of the Po River. In Latin language its name meant ?clear?, although today it is one of the most polluted rivers of Europe....
     (L)
  • Trebbia
    Trebbia

    The Trebbia is a river of Liguria and Emilia Romagna in northern Italy. It is one of the four main right-bank tributaries of the river Po River, the other three being the Tanaro River, the Secchia and the Panaro....
     (R)
  • Nure
    Nure

    The Nure is a small river in northern Italy . It has its source on the northern slopes of Mount Nero and after a course of about 75 km — the second longest of the province — flows into the Po River 10 km east of Piacenza, in the vicinity of Roncarolo, a frazione of the commune of Caorso, on the border with the Lombardy commu...
     (R)
  • Adda
    Adda River

    The Adda is a river in North Italy, a tributary of the Po River. It rises in the Alps near the border with Switzerland and flows through Lake Como....
     (L)
  • Arda
    Arda River (Italy)

    The Arda is a Stream#Intermittent and ephemeral streams of Emilia-Romagna, Italy, nearly all of its course being within the province of Piacenza....
     (R)
  • Taro
    Taro River

    The Taro is a 126 Kilometre-long river in northern Italy, tributary to the Po River. It flows almost entirely in the province of Parma, west of the city Parma....
     (R)
  • Parma
    Parma River

    The River Parma is a large stream of 92km in length that begins in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennine mountains and flows through the Province of Parma into Parma, dividing the city in two, and then continues on to discharge into the Po river....
     (R)
  • Enza
    Enza

    The Enza is a river in northern Italy, a right affluence of the Po River. Its source is at the Alpe di Succiso, in the northern Apennines , at 1,406 m....
     (R)
  • Oglio
    Oglio

    The Oglio is a left-side tributary of the Po River in Lombardy, Italy. It is 280 km long.The Oglio is formed from the confluence of two mountain streams, the Narcanello from the Presena Glacier, and the Frigidolfo, from Lake Ercavallo, in the Stelvio National Park....
     (L)
  • Mincio
    Mincio

    Mincio is a river in the Lombardy region of northern Italy.Called the Sarca before entering Lake Garda, it flows from there about 65 km past Mantua into the Po River....
     (L)
  • Secchia
    Secchia

    The Secchia is an Italy river. It runs through Emilia-Romagna, and is one of the main tributaries on the right-hand side of the Po River.It is 172 km long, and has a drainage basin with a surface of 2,292 km?, alternating between aridity in summer and fullness in spring and autumn....
     (R)
  • Panaro
    Panaro

    The Panaro is an Italy river and the final right-hand tributary to the Po river, discounting the Cavo Napoleonico canal. It runs right across Emilia-Romagna in a north-easterly direction: from its source close to the Apennine Water divide, where Emilia-Romagna meets Tuscany, to its outlet where the Po marks the region?s boundary with Veneto....
     (R)
  • Versa
    Versa (Po)

    The Versa is a tributary of the Po River which runs through the Province of Pavia in northern Italy....


  • the Reno
    Reno River

    The Reno is a river of Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. It is the tenth longest river in Italy and the most important of the region apart from the Po River....
     (R) was a tributary of the Po River until the middle of the eighteenth century when the course was diverted to lessen the risk of devastating floods.