Acquafraggia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Acquafraggia (also Acqua Fraggia) is a short and frequently steep torrente, or seasonal stream, of the province of Sondrio in Lombardy, north Italy.

Its source is on Pizzo del Lago, at an elevation of Script error: No such module "convert"., on the north side of the Val Bregaglia and close to the Swiss border which here marks the limit of the Po drainage basin. From here it flows in a southwesterly direction within the territory of the commune of Piuro until it joins the Mera as a right tributary at the locality of Borgonuovo, a little upstream from Chiavenna and the mouth of the Val Bregaglia.

At an early point of its course the stream forms the lake of Acqua Fraggia at an elevation of Script error: No such module "convert".; it then runs through two hanging valleys of glacial origins, emerging from each in a series of waterfalls, which were noted by Leonardo da Vinci in the Codex Atlanticus. This has been a protected area since 1983.

References