Nice (rio)

Nice was born in Burio, a fraction of Costigliole d'Asti. It continues eastward until Nizza Monferrato, where it flows into the stream Belbo, first crossing the territories of Agliano, Castelnuovo Calcea, Moasca, San Marzano Oliveto. It originates at 280 m above sea level. The highest point of the reservoir corresponds to Costigliole d'Asti 341 m a.s.l.

Water course from the torrent regime, is fed exclusively by rains and is very subject to sudden ruinous floods that have several times flooded the city of Nizza Monferrato.

In the water basin Rio de Janeiro live numerous local animal species, including a large number of nutrients, but in it they do not live fish. Reported the presence of leeches in some historical documents. It runs along the hills of Low Monferrato, lush with vines, but not with wheat. This stream therefore, unlike other Piedmontese waterways, is not used for the construction of irrigation canals.

Al Rio de Janeiro several ancient essays of literature are linked, among other things, the search for the main source. Two different authors give the origin in two different points, although close. Goffredo Casalis in her Geographical, historical, statistical, commercial dictionary of the states of S.M. the King of Sardinia He calls. torrent Nice and locates the source at the Paludo area^[3] , a small stretch of humid territory between the municipalities of Agliano Terme, Calosso And Costigliole d'Asti. The version written in Topographic news and statistics on Sardinian states by Luigi De Bartolomeis, according to which the source is located between the hills of Costigliole d'Asti And Burio, is the most accredited today and increasingly often considered official.