Acquafraggia

Infobox River
river_name = Acquafraggia


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origin = Pizzo di Lago
mouth = Mera at Borgonuovo, Piuro
basin_countries = Italy
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elevation = 3,050 m
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Acquafraggia (also Acqua Fraggia) is a short and frequently steep "torrente", or seasonal stream, of the province of Sondrio in Lombardy, north Italy.

Its source is on Pizzo del Lago, at an elevation of 3,050 metres, on the north side of the Val Bregaglia and close to the Swiss border which here marks the limit of the Po drainage basin. From here it flows in a southwesterly direction within the territory of the commune of Piuro until it joins the Mera as a right tributary at the locality of Borgonuovo, a little upstream from Chiavenna and the mouth of the Val Bregaglia.

At an early point of its course the stream forms the lake of Acqua Fraggia at an elevation of 2,043 metres; it then runs through two suspended valleys of glacial origins, emerging from each in a series of waterfalls, which were noted by Leonardo da Vinci in the Codice Atlantico. This has been a protected area since 1983.

References

*Translation/Ref|it| Acquafraggia |oldid=8905648
* [http://www.parks.it/mn.cascate.acquafraggia/par.html Monumento Naturale Cascate dell'Acquafraggia]