River
Erenik
51 km from source to mouth · Kosovo.
KosovoFlows into White Drin3rd longest in Kosovo
In numbers
Length
51km
Average flow
38m³/s
Basin
516km²
Drop
101m
from 420 m to 319 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
51 km of river and 10 stops on the way: 8 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 420 m
- 9 kmDeçan50,500 people
- 10 kmLluka e Eperme1,500 people
- 10 kmLëbushë1,250 people
- 10 kmIsniq5,500 people
- 12 kmPapraqan1,288 people
- 13 kmStrellc i Ulët2,850 people
- 24 kmKosuriq1,200 people
- 49 kmTabački Bridge
- 49 kmGjakova41,809 people
- 50 kmTerzi Bridge
- 51 kmWhite Drinat 319 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Kosovo
At the mouth it carries 38 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 66 seconds. It drops from 420 m to 319 m, 2.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 516 km². 336,000 people live in it. Highest water: from November to January; lowest: from July to August. Its dams hold back little of its water (9.5% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- DeçanLargest city on its banks · 50,500 people
- Priština Adem Jashari International Airport (PRN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 61 km from the cityCar hire at PRN airport (Prishtina)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Erenik, month by month
Highest water: from November to January
Lowest water: from July to August. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 15 m³/s in the lowest month to 93 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Erenik: the basin in numbers
2,536 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 336,000people live in the basin
- 132/km²people per km²
- 834maverage altitude of the basin
- 976mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.1°Caverage air temperature
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 20% Forest
- 45% Cropland
- 18% Pasture
- 6% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Erenik: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Erenik in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
83mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (83)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Gjeravica1.4 km away · prominence 1,018 m2,656m
- Marijash10 km away2,533m
- Maja e Rops5.7 km away2,502m
- Trekufiri5.3 km away · prominence 75 m2,366m
- Streočka Mountain11 km away2,377m
- Shkëlzen7.5 km away2,407m
- Dog Peak9.1 km away2,405m
- Veternik Mountain12 km away2,461m
75 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Erenik in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
White Drin
Albania175 km56 m³/sNearby
Rivers nearby
Albania177 km50 m³/s32 km awayLumbardhi PejësKosovo62 km22 m³/s23 km awaySitnica
Serbia90 km95 m³/s66 km awayDrinAlbania280 km350 m³/s111 km awayTreska
North Macedonia132 km2,300 m³/s78 km awayLlapiKosovo72 km5.0 m³/s59 km awayBunaAlbania40 km680 m³/s111 km awayMorača
Montenegro99 km15 m³/s113 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q3299072) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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