Mid-River Fiumelatte Lake Como Italy

by Joan Carroll

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Mid-River Fiumelatte Lake Como Italy

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Joan Carroll

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Photograph - Photography And Digital Art

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Fiumelatte is one of the few rivers of the world that you can walk its entire length, and all before lunch. Located near Varenna on Lake Como, Italy, Fiumelatte owes its fame to being the shortest river in Italy, running only 250 m. If that weren’t enough to make it famous, it only runs seasonally, appearing suddenly in the second half of March with a raging flow and then drying up in the middle of October. The intermittent flow could imply that the river is the vent of an unexplored underground cavity in the mountains, which gets periodically filled. Da Vinci described the river as having ‘inestimable uproar and noise’, likely due to its average descent gradient of 36 degrees! For such a short river, it offers a lot of bang for the viewing buck, with great views at the source, half way down the mountain under the arch of the railroad tracks as seen here, and also as it spills into Lake Como in the village of Fiumelatte. On this day, there was mist rising from the river seen in the early morning sunshine. Even in the early morning, the water appears bright white thus living up to its name: Fiumelatte means ‘milk river’.

FEATURED PHOTO, Million Visitors Artists group, 6/6/19

FEATURED PHOTO, FAA Gallery Home for all Artists Who Create group, 6/4/19

FEATURED PHOTO, Water Forms group, 6/2/19

joan carroll, waterfall, waterfalls, falls, nature, landscape

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