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Lao (Italian river)

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Lao (ᾶ, Latin: Laus, Laos or Laüs, formerly also Laino) is a river in southern Italy. It rises in the Lucanian Apennines in Basilicata (where it is known as the Mercure) and drains into the Tyrrhenian Sea near Scalea in Calabria.

Flows through: Italy.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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