It is an artificial lake, created in the 1960s to power the electricity station of Capriati al Volturno.
The peak of Mount Miletto is reflecting in its placid waters where they come from.
With a surface of just over a square kilometer, the enchanting Lake of Letino was created at the beginning of the twentieth century in order to feed the hydroelectric power station of Prata Sannita.
Mount Massico with its 813 meters is the highest relief of the mountain range which starts from the slopes of the Roccamonfina volcano and reaches the Tyrrhenian Sea.
It is one of the favourite stopping points in the long spring migration from Africa to Central Eastern Europe on the Tyrrhenian route.
For the ancient Italic peoples it was a sacred river. On the shores, they erected sanctuaries such as the Demetra and Teano one.
For the ancients, it was the river of the myth, which gave forgetfulness to whoever drunk its water.