Bompensiere

Comune in Sicily, Italy

Bompensiere
Comune
Comune di Bompensiere
Location of Bompensiere
37°28′N 13°47′E / 37.467°N 13.783°E / 37.467; 13.783
Country	Italy
Region	Sicily
Province	Caltanissetta (CL)
Area ^[1]
• Total	19 km² (7 sq mi)
Population (2007)^[2]
• Total	630
• Density	33/km² (86/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Bompensiere (Sicilian: Naduri) is a comune in the province of Caltanissetta in the south of Sicily, Italy.

Physical geography

Territory

The municipal territory is located almost at the center of Sicily, in a hilly area whose average height above sea level is 290 meters. It extends on a slope of Mount Marrobio stretching from south-east to north-west for about one kilometer.

The town is arranged along a single main street on whose sides the houses are divided, almost uniformly distributed. The lowest point of the town is to the north-west, at an altitude of about 270 meters above sea level (Piana Giarre); the highest point is located in the south-east at an altitude of about 320 meters above sea level (Contrada Portella).

References

^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
^ "The World Gazetteer". Archived from the original on 2013-02-09. Retrieved 2007-02-24.