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Rifriscolaro

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Native name
  
Rifriscolaro

Country
  
Italy

Main source
  
Donnafugata Castle

Length
  
11 km

Other name(s)
  
Greek: Ὄανις (Oanis)

Region
  
Sicily

River mouth
  
Ruins of Kamarina

Source
  
Donnafugata Castle

Rifriscolaro

The Rifriscolaro, Sicilian Il Rifriscolaro, anciently called the Oanis Ancient Greek: Ὄανις), is an arroyo in south-east Sicily.

It rises a kilometre north of Donnafugata Castle, in the Ragusan countryside and flowing with an east-west orientation through the commune of Ragusa. After a course of around eleven kilometres it flows into the Mediterranean Sea, south of the ruined Greek city of Kamarina but the flow has a negative hydraulic balance and carries almost no water for the majority of the year. In the valley of the Rifriscolaro there are a number of diverse archaeological remains, which include the ruins of a temple of Demeter and a necropolis with graves dating to the Archaic Greek period (sixth century BCE) to the Hellenistic period (third century BCE).

References

Rifriscolaro Wikipedia