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Malone is a long stream () of the Metropolitan City of Turin in
The Italian word ''torrente'', translated as torrent, or stream, refers to a river in which the flow is subject to a wide and broadly predictable seasonal variation. Torrents often dry up in summer.
The Malone in full flood, however, can be genuinely “torrential” in the normal English sense of the word. The mean discharge of around can increase a hundredfold and cause great damage, as happened in the flood of October 2000.
Piedmont
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, north-western Italy
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. It is a left side tributary of the river Po which flows through the Canavese.
Geography
The river's source is at Monte Soglio from which it falls quickly and rapidly through thecommunes
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of Corio, Rocca Canavese
Rocca Canavese is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italy, Italian region Piedmont, located about northwest of Turin.
Rocca Canavese borders the following municipalities: Corio (TO), Corio, Forno Canavese, Levo ...
, Barbania and Front (TO), growing in force as it receives contributions from streams descending from the ''Riserva Naturale della Vauda'' nature reserve
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on its right bank. The Malone then runs past Rivarossa, Lombardore, San Benigno Canavese
San Benigno Canavese (Piedmontese: ''San Balègn'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 20 km northeast of Turin, whose territory is bordered by the Malone and Orco ri ...
then arrives at Brandizzo
Brandizzo is a '' comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin.
Brandizzo borders the following municipalities: Chivasso, Volpiano, Settimo Torinese
Settimo Torinese ...
(near Chivasso
Chivasso (; pms, Civass) is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Turin, in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin. Chivasso has a population of about 27,000. It is situated on the left bank of the Po river, near the inf ...
) where it enters the Po.
Regime
The Italian word ''torrente'', translated as torrent, or stream, refers to a river in which the flow is subject to a wide and broadly predictable seasonal variation. Torrents often dry up in summer.
The Malone in full flood, however, can be genuinely “torrential” in the normal English sense of the word. The mean discharge of around can increase a hundredfold and cause great damage, as happened in the flood of October 2000.
References
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Rivers of the Province of Turin Canavese Rivers of Italy Rivers of the Alps Brandizzo {{Italy-river-stub