Flight Munich - Rome, view in E direction. The delta of Italy's longest river is the consequence of the S-ward deviation of the water in the early 17th century, in order to avoid siltation of the Venetian Lagoon. Extraction of methane and exploitation of groundwater led to subsidence of the ground below sea level. In 2015, the delta has been declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
- Location
- View on OpenStreetMap
- Created
- on Wednesday 1 July 2015 by Martin Mergili
- Keywords
- aerial view, beach, coastscape, cultural landscape, fluvial processes, hydraulic engineering, marine processes, Zonobiome IV
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- 6841 visits, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED license