Site Implementation Plan: Rendina, Italy

Table of Contents

1. Site Information
2. Summary
3. Location description
   1. Soils
   2. Geology
   3. Annual rainfall and seasonality
   4. Photographs of the basin
4. Stakeholder information
5. Land use
6. Conservation measures and experimental setup
7. Monitoring activities

Location description

Coordinates: UTM, WGS84, zone 33N

• upper left corner: 4543166 N , 550356 E
• lower right corner: 4523186 N , 583602 E
  

Situation: large watershed of 410 km² with complex physiographic, geomorphological, geological and pedological settings.

Physiographic setting of the plots:

• complex mountain slopes slightly to moderately steep
• ancient terraced alluvial cone, slightly steep
• mountain slopes moderately to slightly steep
• ancient Pleistocene surfaces, with flat summit surfaces slightly steep conglomerated Pleistocene deposits
• alluvial floodplain of Ofanto river and Venosa torrent, almost flat
• fluvio-lacustrine terrace with high incision of the Venosa torrent, numerous flat surfaces (fluvio-lacustrine flat)
• complex mountainslopes, steep to moderately steep
• undulated hillslopes