{{For|the Italian wine region|Savuto wine}} {{Infobox river | name = Savuto | image = Savuto Valle da Scigliano.jpg | image_caption = Savuto river valley as seen from Scigliano | map = | source1_location = | mouth = Tyrrhenian Sea | mouth_location = | mouth_coordinates = {{coord|39.0319|16.0989|region:IT_type:river|display=it}} | progression = | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = Italy | length = | source1_elevation = | mouth_elevation = | discharge1_avg = | basin_size = }}
The '''Savuto''' is a river and valley in Calabria, Southern Italy, that lies at the intersection of the provinces of Cosenza and Catanzaro. It is also the name of a DOC wine produced in the region.
The river's source is in La Sila and it empties into the Tyrrhenian Sea, at the Gulf of Saint Euphemia, after a run of {{convert|48|km|mi}}.
The name originates from the Latin ''Sabutus'',<ref>{{cite book |title=Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World: Map-By-Map Directory |editor=Richard J.A. Talbert |volume=I |year=2000 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, NJ and Oxford, UK |isbn=0691049459 |page=700 }}</ref> and it may also correspond to the Greek ''Ocinaros'' ("that flows quickly"), on which there was located the ancient town of Temesa.
It is also the name of a small village near the river
The river is crossed by a Roman bridge along the Roman Via Popilia, the Ponte sul Savuto, or Hannibal's bridge.
The Savuto valley is home to many towns (It: ''comuni'' including: Aprigliano, Parenti, Rogliano, Santo Stefano di Rogliano, Marzi, Carpanzano, Malito, Scigliano, Pedivigliano, Altilia, Grimaldi, Aiello Calabro, Martirano, San Mango d'Aquino, Cleto, and Nocera Terinese known collectively as "towns of the Savuto" (It: ''Paesi del Savuto'').
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== External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20071016092722/http://www.ecodellavalle.it/nuke/index.php Notizie dalla valle del Savuto] {{in lang|it}}
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Category:Rivers of Italy Category:Rivers of the Province of Cosenza Category:Rivers of the Province of Catanzaro Category:Drainage basins of the Tyrrhenian Sea
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