Valmacca is a comune

Comune

In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

(municipality) 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....

 in the Italian

Italy

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 region 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...

, located about 70 km east of Turin

Turin

Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

 and about 20 km north of Alessandria

Alessandria

-Monuments:* The Citadel * The church of Santa Maria di Castello * The church of Santa Maria del Carmine * Palazzo Ghilini * Università del Piemonte Orientale-Museums:* The Marengo Battle Museum...

 in an area of plain on the right of the Po River

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...

 at the confluence of the Rotaldo

Rotaldo

The Rotaldo, known in its upper course as the Laio, is a 40 km river of northern Italy, and a right-side tributary of the Po. Most of its course falls within the Province of Alessandria; all of it within the former Province of Casale...

 and the Gattola

Gattola

The Gattola is a stream of the Basso Monferrato in north-west Italy, a left tributary of the Rotaldo. In 1836 it was of sufficient importance to be listed in the Dizionario geografico, storico, statistico, commerciale degli stati di S.M...

. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,089 and an area of 12.6 km².

Valmacca borders the following municipalities: Bozzole

Bozzole

Bozzole is a comune in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 70 km east of Turin and about 15 km north of Alessandria...

, Breme

Breme

Breme is a comune in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 60 km southwest of Milan and about 40 km west of Pavia...

, Frassineto Po

Frassineto Po

Frassineto Po is a comune in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 70 km east of Turin and about 25 km north of Alessandria...

, Pomaro Monferrato

Pomaro Monferrato

Pomaro Monferrato is a comune in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 70 km east of Turin and about 15 km north of Alessandria...

, Sartirana Lomellina

Sartirana Lomellina

Sartirana Lomellina is a comune in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 60 km southwest of Milan and about 40 km west of Pavia...

, and Ticineto

Ticineto

Ticineto is a comune in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 70 km east of Turin and about 20 km north of Alessandria....

.