Oliva (river)

Oliva (Fiume Oliva in Italian, Jumu d'Oliva in local dialect) is a river in Calabria, Southern Italy. On the southern Tyrrhenian side, within the municipality of Amantea (specifically, the frazioni Coreca and Campora San Giovanni) in the Province of Cosenza, which gives its name to the entire valley it flows through (the Olivo valley). It is considered part of the Scala Basin, which contains an aquifer. It was in news for the alleged environmental pollution associated with the beaching of the "Jolly Rosso" on 14 December 1990 and its subsequent breaking in 1991. The river was again in the news in 2011 as an investigation into possible illegal dumping of hazardous waste (including Cesium 137) in the river was undertaken and reported to the European Union.

Flows through: Italy.

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