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Rio Paterno
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A short nice canyon definitively abandoned by water.
| Name | Rio Paterno |
| Area | Umbria |
| Nearest village | Paterno |
| Entrance altitude (above sea level) | 510 m |
| Exit altitude (above sea level) | 325 m |
| Length | 750 m |
| Longest rappel | 12 m |
| Rock | Pink limestone |
| Rating | 3 |
| Shuttle | Possible |
| Explored by | Nilio Conti; 2004 |
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What you find in the detailed description
I remember ...
From the limited information received by friends or found on the internet it was not clear that the canyon was permanently inactive. In addition, some time before
I had gone in the valley upstream of the canyon and I had observed a moderate water flow. So I was convinced that it was an active canyon, and so I went there in
spring, believing I would have found good flow-rate.
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Instead, a few hundred meters before the confluence with river Nera, the water of the Rio Paterno reaches the banks of pink limestone and here are completely
absorbed into the karst network. So the last part of Rio Paterno, the narrows, are permanently without water.
