 Hecataeus asserts that the Adriatic sea and the town of Adria were named after this river.Between the 12th and the 9th century BC the mainstream of the Po followed this channel; its course followed more or less today's system of the Fissero-Tartaro-Canalbianco canals and flowed into the Adriatic Sea by the site of Adria town.At that time the coastline was far more upriver than nowadays.