Gambara (

Brescian Eastern Lombard is a group of closely related variants of Lombard, a Gallo-Italic language spoken in Lombardy, mainly in the provinces of Bergamo, Brescia and Mantua, in the area around Cremona and in parts of Trentino. Its main variants are ...

: ), not to be confused with

Gambarana Gambarana is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pavia in the Italy, Italian region Lombardy, located about 60 km southwest of Milan and about 35 km southwest of Pavia. As of 31 December 2021, it had a population of 199 and an ...

, is a town and ''

comune A (; : , ) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions () and provinces (). The can also have the City status in Italy, titl ...

'' in the

province of Brescia The province of Brescia (; Brescian: ) is a Provinces of Italy, province in the Lombardy region of Italy. It has a population of some 1,265,964 (as of January 2019) and its capital is the city of Brescia.With an area of 4,785 km2, it is the ...

, in

Lombardy The Lombardy Region (; ) is an administrative regions of Italy, region of Italy that covers ; it is located in northern Italy and has a population of about 10 million people, constituting more than one-sixth of Italy's population. Lombardy is ...

. Bordering communes are Asola (MN),

Fiesse Fiesse (Brescian: ) is a ''comune'' in the province of Brescia, Lombardy, northern Italy. It is bounded by other communes of Asola, Casalromano, Gambara, Remedello and Volongo Volongo (locally ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province ...

, Gottolengo, Isorella, Ostiano (CR), Pralboino, Remedello and

Volongo Volongo (locally ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Cremona in the Italian region Lombardy, located about southeast of Milan and about northeast of Cremona Cremona ( , , ; ; ) is a city and (municipality) in northern Italy, ...

(CR).

Physical geography

Gambara is bordered by the rivers Mella and

Chiese The Chiese, also known in the Province of Brescia as the Clisi, is a Italian river that is the principal immisary and sole emissary of the sub-alpine lake Lago d’Idro (Lake Idro), and is a left tributary of the Oglio. The river rises from th ...

, tributaries of the nearby river

Oglio The Oglio (; or ; , ) is a left-side tributary of the river Po in Lombardy, Italy. It is long. In the hierarchy of the Po's tributaries, with its of length, it occupies the 2nd place per length (after the river Adda), while it is the 4th pe ...

. The town is located on the right side of the Gambara river.

References

Cities and towns in Lombardy {{Brescia-geo-stub