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The Picocca river is a river torrents that collects water from Sarrabus mountains with peaks around 1000 meters and flows between precisely granite gorges .
In summer and autumn is almost dry but with the arrival of winter rains can swell up to become dangerous with its devastating floods.

The Roman bridge you see in the picture in San Priamo location, was destroyed by floods several times and then rebuilt.

The gorge of Rio Picocca was proposed as a Natural Monument under the LR 31/89 (B0098A) along the valley "Arco dell'Angelo" (which takes its name from a rock site at the confluence of this torrent with the Rio Cannas). The lifting of the Region of the Cenozoic Sarrabus favored the etching of deep river valleys, including the imposing Gorge "Rio Picocca", affecting up to the batolite of pink granite that is the whole basement area, to form a peak extraordinary walls, extensively fractured, full of pinnacles, and traveled to a number of strands of quartz, apliti, porphyry and lamprofiri. Huge rounded boulders and prismatic, supported at the bottom of the valley and eroded by water up to put a naked rock alive, alternating with puddles of water and alluvial deposits. The vegetation, typically Mediterranean, is characterized by Nerium oleander, whose foliage are sometimes real and the galleries on which abundant spring blooms add color to already turned pink granite. Among the species of fauna, worthy of note are Emys orbicularis Hawk peregrinus, Accipiter nisus wolterstoffii, Martes martes Latinorum, Felys sylvestris Libyan. Natural Park of adjacent Mountains Setti Brothers (which is connected to the Valley of the torrent Picocca as Area of Significant Interest Nature) live Aquila chrysaetos and this is one of the last nuclear Cervus elaphus corsicanus.

In WS you can see particular on the river gorges Picocca and myrtle bushes, from this derives a digestive liqueur.

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