Pratola Serra is a town and comune in the province of Avellino , Campania , Italy.
5-563: The area of the comune spread on the right bank of the Sabato river. The oldest part of the comune is the village of Serra di Pratola that lie on a hill overlooking the Sabato river valley. The village of Pratola was born later stretching along a major road to Apulia . It lies in the valley and later has spread on the nearby hills. The comune was born in 1812 merging the two villages of Pratola and Serra. The village of Pratola since then has become
10-426: A stream bank or river bank is the terrain alongside the bed of a river , creek, or stream . The bank consists of the sides of the channel , between which the flow is confined. Stream banks are of particular interest in fluvial geography, which studies the processes associated with rivers and streams and the deposits and landforms created by them. Bankfull discharge is a discharge great enough to fill
15-407: A shallow slope. In freshwater ecology , banks are of interest as the location of riparian habitats . Riparian zones occur along upland and lowland river and stream beds. The ecology around and depending on a marsh , swamp , slough , or estuary , sometimes called a bank, is likewise studied in freshwater ecology. Banks are also of interest in navigation , where the term can refer either to
20-509: The channel and overtop the banks. The descriptive terms left bank and right bank refer to the perspective of an observer looking downstream ; a well-known example of this being the southern left bank and the northern right bank of the river Seine defining parts of Paris . The shoreline of ponds , swamps , estuaries , reservoirs , or lakes are also of interest in limnology and are sometimes referred to as banks. The grade of all these banks or shorelines can vary from vertical to
25-525: The major town of the comune and it is the seat of the town hall. A major FIAT engine plant is located in the town, with the town giving its name to a series of modular engines built there. This Campanian location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . right bank In geography , a bank is the land alongside a body of water . Different structures are referred to as banks in different fields of geography, as follows. In limnology (the study of inland waters),
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