River
Nera
116 km from source to mouth · Italy.
ItalyFlows into Tiber
In numbers
Length
116km
Average flow
60m³/s
Basin
4,280km²
Drop
643m
from 690 m to 47 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
116 km of river and 13 stops on the way: 6 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 690 m
- 0 kmMagliano De'Marsi3,144 people
- 35 kmLago del Salto6.3 km²
- 56 kmRieti39,068 people
- 69 kmLago di Ripasottile0.6 km²
- 80 kmLago di Piediluco1.4 km²
- 83 kmCascata delle Marmore
- 83 kmVelinotributary
- 88 kmTerni111,189 people
- 100 kmLago di Recentino0.6 km²
- 100 kmNarni5,279 people
- 101 kmNarni Scalo4,672 people
- 102 kmPonte d'Augusto
- 116 kmOrte Scalo3,251 people
- 116 kmTiberat 47 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Italian river
At the mouth it carries 60 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 42 seconds. It drops from 690 m to 47 m, 5.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 4,280 km², about the size of CV. 283,000 people live in it. Highest water: from November to December; lowest: from July to August. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (23% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- TerniLargest city on its banks · 111,189 people
- Perugia San Francesco d'Assisi – Umbria International Airport (PEG)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 60 km from the cityCar hire at PEG airport (Perugia)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Nera, month by month
Highest water: from November to December
Lowest water: from July to August. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 20 m³/s in the lowest month to 110 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
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The basin
Nera: the basin in numbers
4,163 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 283,000people live in the basin
- 68/km²people per km²
- 885maverage altitude of the basin
- 853mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.8°Caverage air temperature
- 12%protected areas
- 0.3%covered by lakes
- 0.4km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 72% Forest
- 22% Cropland
- 4% Pasture
- 3% 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
Nera: what you find on the way
- 3Weirsmarmore
- 14WaterfallsCascata di Rocca Vittiana, Cascata della Mola, Cascatella and 11 more
- 5River beachesBorgo San Pietro, Miralago, Chiringuito - Società Canottieri Piediluco and 2 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Nera 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.
1waterfall on the riverCascadyas
4lakes on its wayLakeyas
28mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Cascata delle Marmorekm 90
Cascadyas is coming soonOpen Cascadyas ↗
Lakes and reservoirs (4)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lago del Saltokm 38 · 87 m deep6.3km²
- Lago di Ripasottilekm 75 · 7 m deep0.6km²
- Lago di Piedilucokm 87 · 19 m deep1.4km²
- Lago di Recentinokm 1090.6km²
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Mountains at the source (28)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Monte Velino6.9 km away · prominence 1,385 m2,487m
- Monte Cafornia7.3 km away · prominence 104 m2,424m
- Monte di Sèvice7.5 km away · prominence 75 m2,355m
- Monte Magnola11 km away · prominence 200 m2,220m
- Punta Trieste10 km away · prominence 130 m2,230m
- Murolungo9.6 km away · prominence 264 m2,184m
- Costa della Tavola12 km away · prominence 141 m2,182m
- Monte Puzzillo13 km away2,174m
20 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
Nera in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
TiberItaly405 km240 m³/sTributaries (5)
Also: Velino, Corno, Serra, Campiano, Vigi
In the same basin
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q932761) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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 | Cascadyas, Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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