The Dittaino is a river of central Sicily

Sicily

Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...

 which rises in the Heraean Mountains, not far from the modern towns of Gangi and Enna

Enna

Enna is a city and comune located roughly at the center of Sicily, southern Italy, in the province of Enna, towering above the surrounding countryside...

. It has a length of 105 km.

After flowing through the territory of Assoro

Assoro

Assoro is a comune in Sicily, Italy in the Province of Enna....

, where its tutelary divinity was worshipped with peculiar honors during the Greek civilization, and afterwards through that of Agira

Agira

Agira is a town and comune in the province of Enna, Sicily . It is located in the mid-valley of the River Salso, 35 km from Enna...

, it joins the Simeto

Simeto

The Simeto is a 113 km long river in Sicily, southern Italy. It is the second longest river on the island after the Salso , but the most important in terms of watershed and for the population of the areas near it...

 in the plain of Catania

Catania

Catania is an Italian city on the east coast of Sicily facing the Ionian Sea, between Messina and Syracuse. It is the capital of the homonymous province, and with 298,957 inhabitants it is the second-largest city in Sicily and the tenth in Italy.Catania is known to have a seismic history and...

, about 30 km from its mouth.

The hydronym

The modern name is the Sicilian version of Arab vocable Wādī al-tīn, namely "The River of Sandstone".