In the heart of Cilento National Park, Le Corne starts in the municipality of Sitio and continues for 36 kilometres until the Tyrrhenian Sea.
The “noble river of Alento”, as Cicero described it, runs through a valley of rare beauty, reached by several torrents, which during the rainiest seasons, increase its flow considerably. Its water feeds an artificial lake, formed by a dam built some decades ago in the district of Prignano Cilento. From the small lake, which has become an important humid zone frequented by different bird species even during the seasonal migrations, it draws water for the irrigation of the farmlands. The Alento flows into the sea after having received its left tributary: Palistro, near the archaeological site of the ancient Velia (Elea for the Greeks), the toponym, which, according to the geographer Strabo, derives from Alento.
