The Parma River is a large stream

Stream

A stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as a branch, brook, beck, burn, creek, "crick", gill , kill, lick, rill, river, syke, bayou, rivulet, streamage, wash, run or...

 of 92 km in length that begins in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennine mountains and flows in Parma valley.

Path

It begins from the lake Lago Santo parmense

Lago Santo parmense

Lago Santo parmense is a lake in the Province of Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. At an elevation of 1507 m, its surface area is 0.0815 km²....

(outflow called Parma di Lago Santo) and small lakes Gemio and Scuro (outflow called Parma di Badignana). After only 4 km Parma di Lago Santo meets Parma di Badignana and then the river take the name of Parma. It flows through the Province of Parma

Province of Parma

The Province of Parma is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Parma.It has an area of 3,449 km², and a total population of 413,198...

 into Parma

Parma

Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....

, dividing the city in two, and then continues on to discharge into the Po

Po River

The Po |Ligurian]]: Bodincus or Bodencus) is a river that flows either or – considering the length of the Maira, a right bank tributary – eastward across northern Italy, from a spring seeping from a stony hillside at Pian del Re, a flat place at the head of the Val Po under the northwest face...

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Local names

• Lungoparma is the local name for the urban area of the city of Parma along the river.
• la Parma is the way parmesans call the stream and its bed (to not to be confused with il Parma, the local name for the Parma F.C.
  Parma F.C.
  Parma Football Club , commonly referred to as just Parma, is an Italian professional football club based in Parma, Emilia–Romagna that will compete in Serie A for the 2011–12 season, having finished in twelfth position last season. Founded as Verdi Foot Ball Club in July 1913, the club changed its...
  
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• la Parma voladora indicates the Parma stream in full flood.