River
Tronto
115 km from source to mouth · Italy.
ItalyFlows into Adriatic Sea
In numbers
Length
115km
Average flow
17m³/s
Basin
1,192km²
Drop
807m
from 806 m to -1 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
115 km of river and 17 stops on the way: 14 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 806 m
- 0 kmLago di Scandarello0.4 km²
- 35 kmPonte di Quintodecimo
- 39 kmAcquasanta Terme2,494 people
- 66 kmPonte Romano di Solestà
- 68 kmAscoli Piceno45,571 people
- 76 kmVilla Pigna5,077 people
- 86 kmPiattoni-Villa Sant'Antonio7,733 people
- 88 kmCastel di Lama7,216 people
- 91 kmVilla San Giuseppe2,050 people
- 91 kmColli del Tronto1,274 people
- 95 kmPagliare4,847 people
- 99 kmControguerra1,063 people
- 101 kmStella2,963 people
- 105 kmCentobuchi8,384 people
- 107 kmColonnella1,179 people
- 113 kmSan Benedetto del Tronto46,957 people
- 114 kmMartinsicuro16,270 people
- 115 kmAdriatic Seaat -1 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 17 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 147 seconds. It drops from 806 m to -1 m, 7.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,192 km², about the size of MQ. 132,000 people live in it. Highest water: from November to December; lowest: from July to August. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- San Benedetto del TrontoLargest city on its banks · 46,957 people
- Abruzzo Airport (PSR)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 62 km from the cityCar hire at PSR airport (Pescara)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Tronto, 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 4.8 m³/s in the lowest month to 25 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
Tronto: the basin in numbers
1,192 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 132,000people live in the basin
- 111/km²people per km²
- 771maverage altitude of the basin
- 833mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 11.3°Caverage air temperature
- 35%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 71% Forest
- 14% Cropland
- 5% Pasture
- 7% 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
Tronto: what you find on the way
- 8WeirsBriglia Volpi and 7 more
- 4WaterfallsCascate di Forcella and 3 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Tronto 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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
11beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
17mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lago di Scandarellokm 0 · 41 m deep0.4km²
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Beaches (11)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Giulianova Beach16 km away25.9°C
- Riviera delle Palme4.8 km away25.9°C
- Spiaggia di Grottammare9.3 km away25.9°C
- Spiaggia di Martinsicuro2.8 km away25.9°C
- Spiaggia di Alba Adriatica8.6 km away25.9°C
- Spiaggia di Giulianova17 km away25.9°C
- La spiaggia del Surabaja24 km away25.9°C
- Spiaggia Cupra Marittima14 km away25.9°C
3 more on CoastyaOpen Coastya ↗
Mountains at the source (17)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Monte Gorzano10 km away · prominence 1,183 m2,458m
- Pizzo di Sevo6.2 km away · prominence 319 m2,419m
- Cima Lepri7.5 km away · prominence 285 m2,445m
- Pizzo di Moscio9.9 km away · prominence 171 m2,411m
- Monte Pizzitello7.0 km away · prominence 41 m2,221m
- Monte di Mezzo13 km away · prominence 195 m2,155m
- Monte Macera della Morte8.4 km away · prominence 53 m2,073m
- Monte Pozzoni9.6 km away1,904m
9 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
Tronto in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (2)
Also: Castellano, Fluvione
Nearby
Rivers nearby
CroatiaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q14087) · 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 | Lakeyas, Coastya, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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