Mazaro


The Mazaro is a river in Sicily, Italy.
The Mazaro river flows across south-western Sicily, from its source in Rapicaldo, located within the Salemi city boundaries, to the Mediterranean Sea in Mazara del Vallo.
Mazaro is a historically important river which has provided water and farming for the people living around it for centuries. The Greeks and Muslims used the river for water to supply their armies in Sicily. The river is shallow. It is connected to the Mediterranean Sea.

"Mad sea" phenomenon

The river is characterized by a periodical phenomenon locally known as marrobbio, which consist in rapid and dramatic sea level oscillations seemingly caused by sudden atmospheric pressure changes; similar phenomena were observed only in a very few other places in the world, including Nagasaki Bay in Japan and Ciutadella.