Albegna

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Albegna
The Albegna near Roccalbegna

The Albegna near Roccalbegna

Data
location Tuscany , Italy
River system Albegna
source near Stribugliano ( Arcidosso )
Source height 1018  m
muzzle Tyrrhenian Sea Coordinates: 42 ° 30 ′ 3 "  N , 11 ° 11 ′ 31"  E 42 ° 30 ′ 3 "  N , 11 ° 11 ′ 31"  E
Mouth height 0  m
Height difference 1018 m
Bottom slope 15 ‰
length 70 km
Left tributaries Zolfereto, Calizzano, Torrente Elsa, Albegnaccia
Right tributaries Rigo
Communities Arcidosso , Magliano in Toscana , Manciano , Orbetello , Roccalbegna , Scansano , Semproniano

The Albegna is an approximately 70 km long river in the province of Grosseto in southern Tuscany , Italy . It crosses the province from north to south.

course

The river rises south of Monte Buceto and south-west of Monte Labbro south of Stribugliano (municipality of Arcidosso , 2 km in the municipality) at 1018 meters. First, it heads south (13 km in the municipality of Roccalbegna , where the Zolfereto and Calizzano join from the left, 7 km in the municipality of Semproniano , where it crosses the Strette dell'Albegna ) to Saturnia , which becomes the municipality of Manciano (a total of 26 km in the local area). It then flows to the southwest and serves the communities of Scansano (6 km) and Magliano in Toscana (8 km) as a south-eastern border (to Manciano). It spends its last 10 km in the municipality of Orbetello and finally flows into the Tyrrhenian Sea at Albinia (district of Orbetello) .

description

The path of the Albegna, still called Albinia by the Romans , mostly leads through agricultural areas. Due to the mud and debris that the river brought with it from the mountains, the headland of Orbetello was created near the mouth , which today connects the former island of Monte Argentario with the mainland. The watercourse, declared not as a torrente , but as a river, has some properties that apply to Torrenti. The river swells considerably in the rainy season, but in the summer months, at least on the upper reaches, it is almost non-existent. The floods in November 2012 claimed four lives, three of whom died when the Ponte sull'Albega bridge collapsed near Marsiliana , a district of Manciano.

photos

  • The waterfalls just before Roccalbegna

  • The Albegna on the municipal boundary of Manciano and Scansano

  • The Albegna near Albinia just before the mouth

  • The mouth of the Albegna in the Tyrrhenian Sea near Albinia (in the background on the left the Monte Argentario with Porto Santo Stefano)

literature

  • Giorgio Battini: Il fiume racconta. Viaggio nella Toscana dei fiumi. , Bonechi, Florence 1993, ISBN 88-7009-941-5 , pp. 237-252.
  • Emanuele Repetti: ALBEGNA (Albinia). In Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846), online edition of the University of Siena (pdf, Italian, p. 6.)

Web links

Commons : Albegna  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f SIRA
  2. ↑ 23 km in length, cf. Official website of the Sistema Informativo Ambientale della Regione Toscana (SIRA) on the Elsa river as a tributary of the Albegna (Italian)
  3. ↑ Not to be confused with the river Elsa , which rises in the province of Siena and the Arno opens
  4. ↑ Not to be confused with other rivers, torrenti, canals or brooks in Tuscany, which are also called rigo
  5. ↑ a b c Giorgio Battini
  6. ↑ a b Emanuele Repetti
  7. ^ Report from La Nazione on the floods in November 2012 in the province of Grosseto, accessed on June 8, 2013 (Italian)