The Strona is a mountain torrent in the Province of Verbano Cusio Ossola, northern Italy

Italy

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, a tribitury of the Toce

Toce

The Toce is a river in Piedmont, Italy, which stretches the length of the Val d'Ossola from the Swiss border to Lake Maggiore into which it debouches near Fondotoce in the Commune of Verbania. The river is c. 76 kilometres in length and is formed in the upper Val Formazza by the confluence of a...

. It rises on Monte Capezzone at an elevation of 2,421 m and runs through the Valle Strona (the communes of Valstrona

Valstrona

Valstrona is a comune in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 90 km northeast of Turin and about 25 km southwest of Verbania...

, Massiola

Massiola

Massiola is a comune in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 110 km northeast of Turin and about 15 km northwest of Verbania. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 169 and an area of 8.0 km².Massiola borders the following...

, Quarna Sopra

Quarna Sopra

Quarna Sopra is a comune in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 100 km northeast of Turin and about 15 km southwest of Verbania...

, Loreglia

Loreglia

Loreglia is a comune in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 110 km northeast of Turin and about 9 km southwest of Verbania...

, Germagno

Germagno

Germagno is a comune in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 110 km northeast of Turin and about 9 km west of Verbania...

, Omegna

Omegna

Omegna is a comune in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 100 km northeast of Turin and about 13 km southwest of Verbania at the northernmost point of Lago d’Orta and traversed by the Nigoglia, the lake’s sole outflow.-History:The presence...

, Casale Corte Cerro

Casale Corte Cerro

Casale Corte Cerro is a comune in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 110 km northeast of Turin and about 9 km west of Verbania...

 and Gravellona Toce

Gravellona Toce

Gravellona Toce is a comune in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 110 km northeast of Turin and about 8 km west of Verbania.-Main sights:*Gallo-Roman necropolis...

) before entering the Toce. At Omegna it is joined by the Nigoglia

Nigoglia

The Nigoglia is a short Italian river whose source is at the northern end of Lago d’Orta, of which it is the sole outflow. Its course of less than 2 kilometres passes in a northerly direction through the town of Omegna and into the Strona....

, the outlet of Lago d’Orta.

Sources

This original version of this article included text translated from its counterpart in the Italian Wikipedia

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