Malone is a long stream () of the Metropolitan City of Turin in

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, north-western

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. It is a

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tributary of the

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which flows through the

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Geography

The river's source is at Monte Soglio from which it falls quickly and rapidly through the

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of Corio,

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Barbania Barbania is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about north of Turin. It is in the middle of the Malone river plain. Barbania borders the following municipalities: Rivara, Busa ...

and

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, growing in force as it receives contributions from streams descending from the ''Riserva Naturale della Vauda''

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on its right bank. The Malone then runs past

Rivarossa Rivarossa is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 20 km north of Turin. Rivarossa borders the following municipalities: Rivarolo Canavese, Oglianico, Front, San Francesc ...

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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 ...

then arrives at Brandizzo (near Chivasso) 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.

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