River
Idrijca
60 km from source to mouth · Slovenia.
SloveniaFlows into Soča4th longest in Slovenia
In numbers
Length
60km
Average flow
34m³/s
Basin
598km²
Drop
153m
from 316 m to 163 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
60 km of river and 2 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 316 m
- 0 kmIdrija5,955 people
- 4 kmSpodnja Idrija1,501 people
- 60 kmSočaat 163 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Slovenia; left tributary of the Soča (Isonzo)
At the mouth it carries 34 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 74 seconds. It drops from 316 m to 163 m, 2.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 598 km².
Where to start
- IdrijaLargest city on its banks · 5,955 people
- Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 41 km from the cityCar hire at LJU airport (Zgornji Brnik)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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Along the river
Idrijca: what you find on the way
- 5Weirs
- 7WaterfallsSlap Tilnik and 6 more
- 1Boat ramps
- 1Marinas
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Idrijca 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.
20mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (20)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Mali Golak4.4 km away1,495m
- Veliki Golak4.8 km away1,480m
- Mošančarski hrib5.7 km away1,356m
- Veliki Rob11 km away · prominence 34 m1,237m
- Petrov hrib6.1 km away1,227m
- Kališče6.4 km away1,184m
- Špičasti vrh13 km away1,128m
- Jelenk9.1 km away1,107m
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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
Idrijca in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Soča
Italy138 km140 m³/sTributaries (4)
Also: Bača, Ljubevščica Creek, Zala, Kanomljica
Nearby
Rivers nearby
AustriaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1574679) · 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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