Sava
river in Southeast Europe
The Sava (German: Save; Serbian Cyrillic: Сава; Hungarian: Száva) is a river in Central and Southeast Europe, a right tributary of Danube at Belgrade. It flows through Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.
Sava
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 Map of the Sava watershed | |
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| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Zelenci |
| - location | Kranjska Gora, Slovenia |
| - coordinates | 46°29′31″N 13°44′16″E / 46.49194°N 13.73778°E |
| - elevation | 833 m (2,733 ft) |
| Mouth | Danube |
| - location | Belgrade, Serbia |
| - coordinates | 44°49′27″N 20°26′38″E / 44.82417°N 20.44389°E |
| - elevation | 68 m (223 ft) |
| Length | 992 km (616 mi)[1] a |
| Basin size | 97,713.2 km2 (37,727.3 sq mi)[1] |
| Discharge | |
| - location | the river mouth |
| - average | 1,609 m3/s (56,800 cu ft/s) |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Danube→ Black Sea |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | Savinja, Sutla, Krapina, Lonja, Ilova-Trebež, Orljava, Bosut, Jarcina |
| - right | Sora, Ljubljanica, Krka, Kupa, Una, Vrbas, Ukrina, Bosna, Tolisa, Tinja, Drina, Kolubara |
| a Including 45 km (28 mi) Sava Dolinka headwater | |
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Sava River Basin Analysis Report" (PDF, 9.98 MB). International Sava River Basin Commission. September 2009. p. 13.
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