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Key facts
- Country
- Italy
- Location
- Monte Peralba , Valle di Sappada ( Province of Udine )
- Elevation
- 2,037 m (6,683 ft)
- Mouth
- Adriatic Sea
- Length
- 220 km (140 mi)
- Basin size
- 4,126.84 km (1,593.38 mi )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- type locality
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- San Donà di Piave
- Continent
- Europe
- Image
- Piave river aerial.jpg
- Length
- 220
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- Commons category
- Piave (river)
- mouth of the watercourse
- Adriatic Sea
- watershed area
- 4127
- discharge
- 135
- lake on watercourse
- Lago di Centro Cadore
- origin of the watercourse
- Peralba
- time period
- Priabonian
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Encyclopedic overview
The Piave ( Italian: [ˈpjaːve]; Latin: Plavis) is a river in Northeast Italy. It begins in the Alps and flows southeast for 220 kilometres (140 mi) into the Adriatic Sea near the city of Venice. One of its tributaries is the Boite.
In 1809 it was the scene of a battle during the Napoleonic Wars, in which Franco-Italian and Austrian forces clashed.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Piave” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.