The Piota is an Apennine torrent in the Province of Alessandria

Province of Alessandria

The Province of Alessandria is an Italian province, with a population of some 430,000, which forms the southeastern part of the region of Piedmont. The provincial capital is the city of Alessandria....

, north-west Italy

Italy

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. It passes through the territory of the communes of
Bosio

Bosio

Bosio is a comune in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 100 km southeast of Turin and about 35 km southeast of Alessandria....

, Casaleggio Boiro

Casaleggio Boiro

Casaleggio Boiro is a comune in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 90 km southeast of Turin and about 35 km south of Alessandria...

, Lerma

Lerma

Lerma is a comune in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 90 km southeast of Turin and about 30 km south of Alessandria....

, Tagliolo Monferrato

Tagliolo Monferrato

Tagliolo Monferrato is a comune in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 90 km southeast of Turin and about 30 km south of Alessandria...

, Silvano d'Orba and Rocca Grimalda

Rocca Grimalda

Rocca Grimalda is a village and comune in the Province of Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. It lies in Alto Monferrato, an historical region of Piedmont, and it was built upon a rocky hill on the Orba's left bank...

. As a tributary of the Orba, the Piota falls within the Po basin.

The river’s source is on the Piedmont

Piedmont

Piedmont is one of the 20 regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,402 square kilometres and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital of Piedmont is Turin. The main local language is Piedmontese. Occitan is also spoken by a minority in the Occitan Valleys situated in the Provinces of...

ese flank of Monte Pracaban

Monte Pracaban

Monte Pracaban is a mountain in the Valle Stura, Liguria, northern Italy, part of the Ligurian Appennines.It is located on the boundary between the comune of Campo Ligure in Liguria, and that of Bosio in Piedmont.-References:...

 and its course takes it through the wild landscapes of the Ligurian Apennines that form the Parco Regionale delle Capanne di Marcarolo. Having been joined by the Gorzente

Gorzente

The Gorzente is an Apennine torrent of the Po basin in north-west Italy. A tributary of the Piota, it flows through the territory of the communes of Campomorone, Bosio, Mornese, Casaleggio Boiro, Lerma and Tagliolo Monferrato....

, the Piota enters the Orba near Silvano d'Orba

Silvano d'Orba

Silvano d'Orba is a comune in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 90 km southeast of Turin and about 25 km south of Alessandria...

.

Trout

Trout

Trout is the name for a number of species of freshwater and saltwater fish belonging to the Salmoninae subfamily of the family Salmonidae. Salmon belong to the same family as trout. Most salmon species spend almost all their lives in salt water...

are fished for in the river and it is possible to pan flecks of gold.