River
Aterno-Pescara
145 km from source to mouth · Italy.
ItalyFlows into Adriatic Sea
In numbers
Length
145km
Average flow
57m³/s
Basin
3,190km²
Drop
780m
from 782 m to 2 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
145 km of river and 27 stops on the way: 24 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmMonterealeat 782 m
- 0 kmMontereale2,197 people
- 11 kmPizzoli3,413 people
- 15 kmPreturo2,076 people
- 18 kmProgetto Case Coppito 31,294 people
- 20 kmCoppito2,903 people
- 25 kmL'Aquila33,691 people
- 28 kmPianola1,178 people
- 30 kmCominio1,008 people
- 32 kmProgetto Case Bazzano1,575 people
- 33 kmMonticchio1,211 people
- 33 kmNucleo Industriale di Bazzano2,619 people
- 43 kmSan Demetrio Ne' Vestini1,728 people
- 78 kmRaiano2,726 people
- 84 kmTirinotributary
- 84 kmSagittariotributary
- 86 kmPopoli5,394 people
- 96 kmTocco da Casauria2,338 people
- 101 kmTorre de' Passeri3,174 people
- 108 kmScafa2,536 people
- 116 kmManoppello Scalo3,641 people
- 126 kmChieti Scalo22,500 people
- 130 kmVillanova1,493 people
- 137 kmSanta Teresa4,116 people
- 138 kmSambuceto9,596 people
- 140 kmVilla Raspa5,059 people
- 144 kmRisorgimento Bridge
- 144 kmPescara118,657 people
- 145 kmAdriatic Seaat 2 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Italy
At the mouth it carries 57 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 44 seconds. It drops from 782 m to 2 m, 5.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,190 km², about the size of LU. 353,000 people live in it. Highest water: from November to December; lowest: from June to August. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- PescaraLargest city on its banks · 118,657 people
- Abruzzo Airport (PSR)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 4 km from the cityCar hire at PSR airport (Pescara)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water11 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe1 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Aterno-Pescara, month by month
Highest water: from November to December
Lowest water: from June to August. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 13 m³/s in the lowest month to 65 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Aterno-Pescara: the basin in numbers
2,923 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 353,000people live in the basin
- 121/km²people per km²
- 870maverage altitude of the basin
- 839mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.7°Caverage air temperature
- 35%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 30% Forest
- 31% Cropland
- 12% Pasture
- 6% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Aterno-Pescara: what you find on the way
- 33Weirs
- 8Locks
- 1WaterfallsCascate di Stiffe
- 1Rapids
- 10Boat ramps
- 1MarinasMarina di Pescara
- 4River beachesSpiaggia libera, Free beach and 2 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Aterno-Pescara in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
14beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
13mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Beaches (14)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Spiaggia Pescarakm 13825.9°C
- Spiaggia di Montesilvano Marina7.8 km away25.9°C
- Spiaggia di Silvi11 km away25.9°C
- Pineto Beach22 km away25.9°C
- Spiaggia Francavilla al Mare8.6 km away25.9°C
- Spiaggia Postilli11 km away25.9°C
- Spiaggia di Santa Maria a Valle18 km away25.9°C
- Ripari di Giobbe18 km away25.9°C
6 more on CoastyaOpen Coastya ↗
Mountains at the source (13)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Monte di Mezzo14 km away · prominence 195 m2,155m
- Monte Civitella6.1 km away1,603m
- Monte San Franco13 km away
- Monte della Laghetta14 km away · prominence 69 m
- Monte Cardito9.5 km away
- Monte Boragine14 km away
- Monte Rua12 km away
- Monte Mascioni8.0 km away
5 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Aterno-Pescara in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (2)
Also: Sagittario, Tirino
Nearby
Rivers nearby
CroatiaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q71530) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Coastya, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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