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The Sarca is a river springing from the Adamello-Presanella mountains in the Italian Alps and flowing into Lake Garda at Torbole. As an emissary of the lake it becomes known as the Mincio river, forming a single river system long (Sarca-Mincio).

Key facts

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Sarca
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Rio Sarca.JPG
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The Sarca River in the Borzago valley (Val Borzago)
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Alpine Adamello-Presanella mountains
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Lake Garda
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Nago-Torbole
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Country
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Italy
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Sarca-Mincio.png
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220px

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

The Sarca is a river springing from the Adamello-Presanella mountains in the Italian Alps and flowing into Lake Garda at Torbole. As an emissary of the lake it becomes known as the Mincio river, forming a single river system long (Sarca-Mincio).

With its length, it is the fifth largest river in Trentino after the Adige, Brenta , Noce and Avisio , while it is the second largest in terms of flow after Adige.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sarca” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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