The Busento (Latin: Bucentius[1]) is a left tributary of the Crati river, which flows about 95 kilometres (59 mi) in Calabria, southern Italy, from the Apennines to the Ionian Sea.

The legend of Alaric and his burial in Busento inspired the poem by August von Platen-Hallermünde Das Grab im Busento with a romantic representation of the King's death and burial.

The river's fame is due to a historic event in 410, when Alaric, first king of the Goths, died during a siege of the town.

The German poet August von Platen-Hallermünde celebrated this event with his poem Das Grab im Busento (1820).

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