River
Krka
93 km from source to mouth · Slovenia.
SloveniaFlows into Sava2nd longest in Slovenia
In numbers
Length
93km
Average flow
170m³/s
Basin
2,247km²
Drop
80m
from 220 m to 140 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
93 km of river and 6 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 220 m
- 11 kmŽužemberk1,053 people
- 30 kmStraža1,996 people
- 41 kmKandija Bridge
- 41 kmNovo Mesto24,446 people
- 57 kmRaduljatributary
- 89 kmBrežice6,843 people
- 93 kmSavaat 140 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in southern Slovenia
At the mouth it carries 166 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 15 seconds. It drops from 220 m to 140 m, 0.9 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,247 km², about the size of KM. 1.1 million 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
- Novo MestoLargest city on its banks · 24,446 people
- Zagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 70 km from the cityCar hire at ZAG airport (Velika Gorica)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Krka, month by month
Highest water: from November to December
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 92 m³/s in the lowest month to 270 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
Krka: the basin in numbers
7,841 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.1millionpeople live in the basin
- 137/km²people per km²
- 620maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,216mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.3°Caverage air temperature
- 41%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 82% Forest
- 6% Cropland
- 17% Pasture
- 7% 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
Krka: what you find on the way
- 11Weirs
- 5Waterfalls
- 2Ferry piers
- 2River beachesKopališče na Loki
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.7 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Krka 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.
8mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (8)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Grmada nad Ortnekom10 km away887m
- Obolno12 km away776m
- Kucelj12 km away
- Kremenjek8.5 km away
- Kopanj7.3 km away
- Goli Vrh8.6 km away
- Limberk7.8 km away
- Ciganov vrh4.7 km away
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.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Sava
Serbia945 km1,700 m³/sTributaries (1)
Also: Radulja
Romania
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
Rivers nearby
Croatia90 km170 m³/s8 km awayKoranaCroatia144 km86 m³/s45 km awaySavinjaSlovenia102 km29 m³/s41 km awayKupaCroatia297 km280 m³/s85 km awayLjubljanicaSlovenia85 km25 m³/s79 km awayMurCroatia434 km170 m³/s109 km awayUnaCroatia207 km200 m³/s127 km awaySana
Bosnia and Herzegovina146 km69 m³/s111 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1126509) · 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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