Riserva regionale Lago piccolo di Monticchio

Rionero in Vulture, Italy · built 1984

Riserva regionale Lago piccolo di Monticchio is a 187-hectare (460-acre) nature reserve located in Basilicata, in the comuni of Atella and Rionero in Vulture. It is administered by the Province of Potenza. The nature reserve consists of one of the two lakes located on the craters of the Monte Vulture, an extinct volcano which last erupted in the Late Pleistocene, 130,000 years ago. Until 1820 there were secondary volcanic activities.

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