The Cecina is a
river
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in
Italy
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.
Etymology
The name "Cecina" is common to the nearby city of
Cecina
Cecina may refer to
* Cecina (river), a river in Tuscany, Italy
* Cecina (meat), a Spanish and Mexican culinary specialty made of beef
* ''Cecina'' (gastropod), a genus of freshwater snails in the family Pomatiopsidae
* Cecina, Tuscany, Italy
* C ...
. It is probably originated from the name of a powerful
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family of the area, ''Kaikna'' or ''Ceicna''. In Roman period, it assumed the denomination of ''Caecina'', from which derivative the current name Cecina.
Geography
The
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of the river is located in
Montieri
Montieri is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Grosseto in the Italian region Tuscany, located about south of Florence and about north of Grosseto.
Among the churches in the town is the 14th-century church of Santi Michele e Paolo w ...
,
Province of Grosseto
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Geography
The Province of Grosseto completely ...
, from the confluence of a number of streams, the largest of which is called Bucafaggi, in the impluvium between
Poggio di Montieri and
Cornate di Gianfalco, two peaks of the
Colline Metallifere
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. Directing itself north, it flows to the west of
Travale, and, after crossing for a small section the ''comune'' of
Radicondoli
Radicondoli is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Siena in the Italian region Tuscany, located about southwest of Florence and about southwest of Siena.
Main sights
Churches in Radicondoli include the ''Collegiata dei Santi Simon ...
, turns to north-west, in a section where it demarcates the boundary between the ''comuni'' of
Castelnuovo Val di Cecina and
Casole d'Elsa
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Main sights
The church of ''San Niccolò'', of Romanesque arc ...
. It then enters in the territory of
Pomarance, where it receives a major tributary, the
Torrente Pavone.
After the river continues flowing on north-west direction, crossing the ''comuni'' of
Pomarance,
Volterra
Volterra (; Latin: ''Volaterrae'') is a walled mountaintop town in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its history dates from before the 8th century BC and it has substantial structures from the Etruscan, Roman, and Medieval periods.
History
...
,
Montecatini Val di Cecina,
Montescudaio,
Guardistallo and
Riparbella. Then it receives other 2 tributaries, the Torrente Trossa, near
Ponteginori; and the Sterza, near
Casino di Terra.
In the final trait, the river crosses the homonymous ''comune'' of
Cecina
Cecina may refer to
* Cecina (river), a river in Tuscany, Italy
* Cecina (meat), a Spanish and Mexican culinary specialty made of beef
* ''Cecina'' (gastropod), a genus of freshwater snails in the family Pomatiopsidae
* Cecina, Tuscany, Italy
* C ...
, where flows into the sea through an
estuary
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.
References
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Rivers of Tuscany