In numbers
Length
148km
Average flow
37m³/s
Basin
2,300km²
Drop
681m
from 685 m to 4 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
148 km of river and 19 stops on the way: 17 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmMonte Cimoneat 685 m
- 17 kmLama1,094 people
- 57 kmMarano sul Panaro3,301 people
- 61 kmFormica2,209 people
- 62 kmVignola22,397 people
- 64 kmSavignano sul Panaro2,658 people
- 65 kmMulino2,089 people
- 70 kmSpilamberto8,770 people
- 73 kmSan Cesario sul Panaro3,193 people
- 76 kmSan Vito1,091 people
- 79 kmSan Damaso2,834 people
- 84 kmPonte di Sant'Ambrogio
- 85 kmGaggio1,280 people
- 93 kmNonantola10,867 people
- 100 kmBomporto3,540 people
- 106 kmSolara1,210 people
- 111 kmCamposanto2,503 people
- 127 kmFinale Emilia9,044 people
- 140 kmBotte napoleonica
- 141 kmBondeno7,519 people
- 148 kmPoat 4 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 37 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 68 seconds. It drops from 685 m to 4 m, 4.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,300 km², about the size of KM. 401,000 people live in it. Highest water: from November to December. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- VignolaLargest city on its banks · 22,397 people
- Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 23 km from the cityCar hire at BLQ airport (Bologna)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water3 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Panaro, month by month
Highest water: from November to December
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 6.7 m³/s in the lowest month to 40 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
Panaro: the basin in numbers
2,078 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 401,000people live in the basin
- 192/km²people per km²
- 322maverage altitude of the basin
- 820mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 12.1°Caverage air temperature
- 5%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 25% Forest
- 43% Cropland
- 12% Pasture
- 10% 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
Panaro: what you find on the way
- 86WeirsBotte Napoleonica and 85 more
- 2Locks
- 1WaterfallsCascate della Pollina
- 3Boat ramps
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Panaro 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.
29mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (29)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Monte Cimone6.5 km away · prominence 1,577 m2,165m
- Monte Giovo8.4 km away · prominence 443 m1,991m
- Monte Rondinaio9.8 km away1,964m
- Libro Aperto8.9 km away1,937m
- Monte Lagoni7.2 km away1,962m
- Alpe Tre Potenze9.7 km away · prominence 241 m1,940m
- Monte Gomito8.5 km away1,890m
- Cima dell' Omo8.4 km away1,860m
21 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
Panaro in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Po
Italy652 km1,500 m³/sWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1243742) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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