Basilicata Map Political Regions

Basilicata Map Political Regions

Basilicata overlooking the Ionian Sea to the south-east and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the south-west, and borders with Campania to the west, Puglia to the north and east and Calabria to the south. The regional capital is power and that, by Matera, are the only two provinces. He almost everywhere conventional boundaries, which often varied over the centuries, those marked by the morphology is more significantly, with Puglia, rivers and some Ofanto and Bradano Lucania Apennine massifs, including the Pollino with Calabria .

To the west, a band formed by the Apennine mountains of Lucania, in the east area of hills which essentially forms the province of Matera and which gradually slopes down towards the Ionian Sea, along which lies the only real plains of the region. The Apennines in Campania Lucania begins, the seat of Conza (700 m), and ends in Calabria, the pace of the staircase (740 m). It consists of several isolated massifs, including those of the Cilento, so that further emphasize the lack of unity on which the region from the point of view of the area. The share rises with the Lucan Apennines proceed south, but you always retain the elevations average between 1200 and 2000 meters. Rounded by the lava flows of Mount Vulture, an ancient extinct volcano located on the northern border with Campania and that touches the 1327m., Appennino rugged and precipitous contrasts aspects elsewhere, particularly in the subset of Sirino (2005 m upstream of the Pope .), with ridges and peaks that recall the glorious Alpine landscapes, culminating in the extreme south of the Pollino massif, the southern Apennines mountain range, separated with Calabria.