Marecchia Facts for Kids

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River
Mouth of the Marecchia in Rivabella
Country	Italy
Regions	Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna
Provinces	Arezzo, Rimini
Comuni	Badia Tedalda, Casteldelci, Verucchio, Rimini

Tributaries
- left	Senatello
- right	Massa, San Marino, Ausa
City	Rimini


Source	Alpe della Luna
- location	Badia Tedalda, Arezzo, Italy
- elevation	1,454 m (4,770 ft)
- coordinates	43°41′20″N 12°8′32″W / 43.68889°N 12.14222°W / 43.68889; -12.14222
Mouth	Adriatic Sea
- location	Rimini, Rimini, Italy
- coordinates	44°04′N 12°34′E / 44.067°N 12.567°E / 44.067; 12.567

Length	70 km (43 mi)
Basin	500 km² (193 sq mi)
Discharge	for Pietracuta
- average	11 m³/s (388 cu ft/s)

The Marecchia (Latin: Ariminus) is a river of the Emilia-Romagna region. The city of Rimini gets its name from the Latin name of the river.

Its low course marks the end of the Padan Plain (Italian: Pianura Padana).

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Geography

The Marecchia river has a length of 70 km (43 mi), and a drainage basin with an area of approximately 500 km² (193 sq mi).

Its discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) depends of the season: in the autumn could be as high as 1,200 m³/s (42,000 cu ft/s) but is very low during summer. Most of the time, the discharge is about 11 m³/s (390 cu ft/s).

Course

The Marecchia river flows through a valley named after it, Valmarecchia. The river starts at about 1 km (0.6 mi) west of Viamaggio (comune of Pieve Santo Stefano) and about 4 km (2.5 mi) southwest of the comune of Badia Tedalda, in the province of Arezzo (Tuscany), in the Alpe della Luna at an elevation of 1,454 m (4,770.3 ft) above sea level.

At about 3 km (1.9 mi) to the northeast of Badia Tedalda, the river gets into the Emilia-Romagna region, in the Casteldelci comune, province of Rimini. Then it flows through Ca 'Raffaello, an exclave of Badia Tedalda; to the north of here, the Senatello river flows into the Marecchia as a left tributary. Later, in Ponte Masa, the Masa river flows from the right into the Marecchia.

Shortly after Torello, the San Marino river flows as a right tributary and, after the Verucchio comune, the Ausa flows also from the right.

Between the frazioni (Italian subdivisions of a municipality) of Rivabella and San Giuliano, in Rimini, the Marecchia river ends in the Adriatic Sea.

The Bridge of Tiberius (Italian: Ponte di Tiberio) or Bridge of Augustus (Latin: Pons Augustus) is a Roman bridge in Rimini. Its construction began in times of Augustus but was finished in 20 AD in times of Tiberius.