The Montone is a river

River

A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river. In a few cases, a river simply flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water. Small rivers may also be called by several other names, including...

 in Romagna

Romagna

Romagna is an Italian historical region that approximately corresponds to the south-eastern portion of present-day Emilia-Romagna. Traditionally, it is limited by the Apennines to the south-west, the Adriatic to the east, and the rivers Reno and Sillaro to the north and west...

, northern Italy

Italy

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. It is the northernmost river on the east-facing slopes of the Apennines to flow directly into the Adriatic Sea

Adriatic Sea

The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine Mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges...

 rather than entering the Po.

The river passes through the localities of San Benedetto in Alpe, Portico di Romagna, Bocconi, Rocca San Casciano

Rocca San Casciano

Rocca San Casciano is a comune in the Province of Forlì-Cesena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 60 km southeast of Bologna and about 25 km southwest of Forlì.-Geography:...

, Dovadola

Dovadola

Dovadola is a comune in the Province of Forlì-Cesena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 60 km southeast of Bologna and about 20 km southwest of Forlì, on the road leading to Florence....

, Castrocaro, Terra del Sole

Terra del Sole

Terra del Sole was a town constructed in 1564 for Cosimo I de’ Medici by Baldassarre Lanci of Urbino, in what is now the Province of Forlì-Cesena, northern Italy. It was one of the first fortified cities to be constructed entirely from new on a planned grid system...

, Forlì

Forlì

Forlì is a comune and city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, and is the capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena. The city is situated along the Via Emilia, to the right of the Montone river, and is an important agricultural centre...

, and, after receiving the waters of the Rabbi River, flows towards Ravenna

Ravenna

Ravenna is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy and the second largest comune in Italy by land area, although, at , it is little more than half the size of the largest comune, Rome...

 with the name of Fiumi Uniti ("Joined Rivers").

The Battle of Ravenna

Battle of Ravenna (1512)

The Battle of Ravenna, fought on 11 April 1512, by forces of the Holy League and France, was a major battle of the War of the League of Cambrai in the Italian Wars...

 was fought near the confluence with the Ronco in 1512. Also famous is the Acquacheta

Acquacheta

Acquacheta is a stream in the province of Forlì-Cesena, Romagna, northern Italy. An affluent of the Montone River, it is famous because it was mentioned by Dante Alighieri in his Divine Comedy ....

 stream, mentioned by Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri

Durante degli Alighieri, mononymously referred to as Dante , was an Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker. He is best known for the monumental epic poem La commedia, later named La divina commedia ...

in his Divine Comedy.