The area amounts to about 80,000 hectares (200,000 acres). The former marsh is a low tract of mainly agricultural land created by draining and filling, separated from the sea by sand dunes. The northwestern border runs approximately from the mouth of the river Astura along the river and from its upper reaches to Cori in the Monti Lepini. The Pontine Marshes ( / ˈ p ɒ n t aɪ n/ PON-tyne, US also / ˈ p ɒ n t iː n/ PON-teen Italian: Agro Pontino, formerly also Paludi Pontine Latin: Pomptinus Ager by Titus Livius, Pomptina Palus and Pomptinae Paludes by Pliny the Elder ) is an approximately quadrangular area of former marshland in the Lazio Region of central Italy, extending along the coast southeast of Rome about 45 km (28 mi) from just east of Anzio to Terracina (ancient Tarracina), varying in distance inland between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Volscian Mountains (the Monti Lepini in the north, the Monti Ausoni in the center, and the Monti Aurunci in the south) from 15 to 25 km ( 9 + 1⁄ 2 to 15 + 1⁄ 2 mi). Visible in the foreground is Lago di Fogliano, one of the laghi costieri, "coastal lagoons". National Park of Circeo, on the coast of the Pontine Fields: The view is an aerial photograph. In the lower right corner, the Volscian Mountains descend to the edge of the narrow strip on which Terracina is situated. Hunting in the Pontine Marshes, oil on canvas by Horace Vernet, 1833 Lake Fogliano, a coastal lagoon in the Pontine Plain Terracina today, looking northward at the promontory: The former marsh to the right of it stretches over the horizon. For other uses of Pontine, see Pontine (disambiguation). This article is about a reclaimed agricultural area in Italy.
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