Gallipoli Cognato Forest is part of the Municipalities of
Accettura, Calciano, and Oliveto Lucano, and it covers a surface of
4,159 hectares.
The forest, deriving from the union of two different
wood estates - the wood Gallipoli, 1,117 hectares, and the wood
Cognato, 3,357 hectares, is characterized by a great altimetric
variety: as a matter of fact, it goes from a 200 m of altitude in the
territory bordering with the riverbed of the Basento to the 1,319 m of
Mt. Impiso.