River
Korana
144 km from source to mouth · Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Croatia and Bosnia and HerzegovinaFlows into Kupa6th longest in Croatia
In numbers
Length
144km
Average flow
86m³/s
Basin
2,600km²
Drop
315m
from 422 m to 107 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
144 km of river and 6 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 422 m
- 0 kmKozjak0.6 km²
- 28 kmTržačka Raštela6,617 people
- 66 kmSlunj1,576 people
- 136 kmRadonjatributary
- 139 kmMrežnicatributary
- 141 kmKarlovac41,869 people
- 144 kmKupaat 107 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in central Croatia and west Bosnia and Herzegovina
At the mouth it carries 86 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 29 seconds. It drops from 422 m to 107 m, 2.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,600 km², about the size of LU. 89,000 people live in it. Highest water: from November to December. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- KarlovacLargest city on its banks · 41,869 people
- Zagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 49 km from the cityCar hire at ZAG airport (Velika Gorica)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- Kayak and canoe1 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Korana, month by month
Highest water: from November to December
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 17 m³/s in the lowest month to 100 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
Korana: the basin in numbers
2,142 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 89,000people live in the basin
- 42/km²people per km²
- 387maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,209mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.1°Caverage air temperature
- 8%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 56% Forest
- 15% Cropland
- 21% Pasture
- 3% 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
Korana: what you find on the way
- 31Weirs
- 99WaterfallsGreat Waterfall, Sastavci, Kotlac and 96 more
- 1Rapids
- 1River beachesDestinacija Korana
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Korana 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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
64mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Kozjakkm 0 · 47 m deep0.6km²
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Mountains at the source (64)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Seliški vrh6.9 km away
- Velika Titra9.1 km away
- Veliki Javornik15 km away
- Preka Kosa4.3 km away
- Krivi Javor12 km away
- Bijela Kosa11 km away
- Konjak12 km away
- Mala Titra11 km away
56 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
Korana in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
KupaCroatia297 km280 m³/sTributaries (6)
Also: Mrežnica, Plitvica, Slunjčica, Radonja, Plitvica Stream, Mutnica
Romania
Serbia
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
Rivers nearby
Slovenia93 km170 m³/s45 km awaySutlaCroatia90 km170 m³/s41 km awaySanaBosnia and Herzegovina146 km69 m³/s80 km awaySavinjaSlovenia102 km29 m³/s73 km awayLjubljanicaSlovenia85 km25 m³/s98 km awayUnaCroatia207 km200 m³/s111 km awayMurCroatia434 km170 m³/s134 km awaySoča
Italy138 km140 m³/s162 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q904696) · 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 | Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
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