It enters the Tyrrhenian Sea from the east of the Cap Corse peninsula.

The Poggiolo is 6.94 kilometres (4.31 mi) long and flows through the communes of San-Martino-di-Lota and Santa-Maria-di-Lota.

The Genoese built a tower, the Torra di Miomu, near the mouth of the Poggiolu to guard its valley.

[2] The stream flows through a hilly schist landscape covered in thick maquis shrubland, with groves of green oaks (Quercus ilex).

[5] The stream is in the Chenaies vertes du Cap Corse (Cap Corse green oaks) Zone naturelle d'intérêt écologique, faunistique et floristique (ZNIEFF).