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The Reno is a river of Emilia-Romagna
Emilia-Romagna

Emilia-Romagna is an administrative Regions of Italy of Northern Italy comprising the two historic regions of Emilia and Romagna. The capital is Bologna; it has an area of 20,124 km? and about 4.3 million inhabitants....
, 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....
. It is the tenth longest river in Italy (the sixth longest of those which flow directly into the sea) and the most important of the region apart from the Po
Po River

The Po is a river that flows 652 km eastward across northern Italy, from Monviso to the Adriatic Sea near Venice. It has a drainage area of 71,000 km? and is the longest river in Italy....
. The name of the river has the same etymology as the German Rhein
Rhine

File:Swiss Grand Canyon.jpgThe Rhine is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe, at , with an average discharge of more than ....
 (Rhine River), as both derive from a Celtic word meaning "flowing (of water)"

It has a drainage basin
Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an extent of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean....
 of c. 5,000 km². The annual average discharge at the mouth is c.






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The Reno is a river of Emilia-Romagna
Emilia-Romagna

Emilia-Romagna is an administrative Regions of Italy of Northern Italy comprising the two historic regions of Emilia and Romagna. The capital is Bologna; it has an area of 20,124 km? and about 4.3 million inhabitants....
, 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....
. It is the tenth longest river in Italy (the sixth longest of those which flow directly into the sea) and the most important of the region apart from the Po
Po River

The Po is a river that flows 652 km eastward across northern Italy, from Monviso to the Adriatic Sea near Venice. It has a drainage area of 71,000 km? and is the longest river in Italy....
. The name of the river has the same etymology as the German Rhein
Rhine

File:Swiss Grand Canyon.jpgThe Rhine is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe, at , with an average discharge of more than ....
 (Rhine River), as both derive from a Celtic word meaning "flowing (of water)"

It has a drainage basin
Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an extent of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean....
 of c. 5,000 km². The annual average discharge at the mouth is c. 95 m³/s; at the point the river start to flow in the Pianura Padana (Po River Plain), it amounts to c. 25 m³/s. The highest values registered at the mouth have approached 2,300 m³/s, but the typical value when the river is in flood is around 1,000 m³/s. The minimal discharge reported is 0.6 m³/s. The river rises in the Le Lari massif of the province of Pistoia
Province of Pistoia

The Province of Pistoia is a Provinces of Italy in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Pistoia. It has an area of 965 km?, and a total population of 268,503 ....
 (Tuscany
Tuscany

Tuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of and a population of about 3.6 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence.Tuscany is known for its landscapes and its artistic legacy....
) at c. 745 m over the sea level, from two streams which join near Le Piastre, in the comune
Comune

In Italy, the comune, is the basic administrative division of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality....
 of Pistoia
Pistoia

Pistoia is a city in the Tuscany region of Italy, the capital of a province of Pistoia, located about 30 km west and north of Florence....
. Its upper course marks the border between Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna and flows in a wooded area crossed by the Bologna-Porretta-Pistoia railway line (inaugurated in 1864 and one of the most outstanding for the time as for engineering effort). The upper course is characterized by several artificial reservoirs whose dams are used for hydro-electric
Hydropower

Hydropower, hydraulic power or water power is power that is derived from the force or energy of moving water, which may be harnessed for useful purposes....
 energy production. The power produced in the basin of the Reno basin is second, for Apennine
Apennine

Apennine may refer to:*The Apennine Mountains*The Apennine or Italian peninsula*The archaeological Apennine culture*The lunar Montes Apenninus...
 rivers, only to that of the Nera-Velino in Umbria
Umbria

Umbria is a Regions of Italy of central Italy. Its capital is Perugia. It has an area of 8,456 km? and about 900,000 inhabitants....
.

In its lower course the Reno receives the water of numerous streams, some of which are seasonal. The most important include the Limentra
Limentra

Limentra is the name of two streams of the bologna and Pistoia Apennines, both among the major tributaries of the Reno River. Due to their relatively large Discharge , they are both exploited for the production of hydro-electric power....
, Silla, Setta, Idice, Sillaro
Sillaro

The Sillaro is a 66 km Italy torrent , a tributary of the Reno River, which runs briefly through the Regions of Italy region of Tuscany and then through the Province of Bologna in Emilia Romagna....
, Santerno
Santerno

The Santerno is a river of Romagna, northern Italy, the major tributary of the Reno River. In ancient Rome times it was known as Vatrenus , although in the Tabula Peutingeriana is already mentioned as Santernus....
 and Senio
Senio

The Senio is a 92 km river of Romagna in Italy, the final right-sided tributary of the river river Reno. The mean discharge at its mouth is about 10 m?/s; however this can vary from a minimum of 0.3 m?/s to a maximum of 500 m?/s....
. The river’s mouth is on 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 Casalborsetti, south-east of the Valli di Comacchio.

Other

  • The river is mentioned by Dante Alighieri
    Dante Alighieri

    Durante degli Alighieri , commonly known as Dante Alighieri, was a Florence poet of the Middle Ages. His Magnum opus, the Divine Comedy , is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature....
     in Canto XVIII of his Inferno
    Inferno

    Inferno is the Italian term for Hell, also used in English for a large uncontrolled fire. It may also refer to:...
     where he defines the Bolognesi
    Bologna

    Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Po Valley , between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, exactly between the Reno River and the S?vena River....
     as those "living between the Savena and the Reno".
  • In 43 BC the pact establishing the Second triumvirate
    Second Triumvirate

    The Second Triumvirate is the name historians give to the official political alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus , Marcus Aemilius Lepidus , and Mark Antony, formed on 26 November 43 BC with the enactment of the Lex Titia, the adoption of which marked the end of the Roman Republic....
     was signed on an islet of the river near the then Roman city of Bononia.


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