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Lim

220 km from source to mouth · 4 countries.

Bosnia and HerzegovinaAlbaniaMontenegroSerbiaBosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro and SerbiaFlows into Drina3rd longest in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Follow the riverMonth by month

SourceMouth
The river and every tributary in its basin, drawn from RiverATLAS (CC BY 4.0).

In numbers

Length

220km

Average flow

860m³/s

Basin

5,963km²

Drop

588m

from 920 m to 332 m

Countries

4

The journey

From source to mouth

220 km of river and 5 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

920 m332 m
Sourceat 920 m0 km
Lake Plav1.7 km²19 km
Berane11,073 people60 km
Bijelo Polje15,400 people94 km
Uvactributary187 km
Drinaat 332 m220 km
050100150220 km
  1. 0 kmSourceat 920 m
  2. 19 kmLake Plav1.7 km²
  3. 20 kmPlav3,615 people
  4. 60 kmBerane11,073 people
  5. 94 kmBijelo Polje15,400 people
  6. 187 kmUvactributary
  7. 220 kmDrinaat 332 m

Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.

River in Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

At the mouth it carries 864 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 2.9 seconds. It drops from 920 m to 332 m, 2.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 5,963 km², about the size of PS. 222,000 people live in it. Highest water: February, April and December. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (12% of a year's flow).

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Where to start

  • Bijelo PoljeLargest city on its banks · 15,400 people
  • Podgorica Airport / Podgorica Golubovci Airbase (TGD)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 86 km from the cityCar hire at TGD airport (Podgorica)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
  • On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
  • From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit

Lim, month by month

Highest water: February, April and December

Best months to visit: from June to September.

150
-1°88 mmJan
350
1°80 mmFeb
270
5°78 mmMar
340
9°88 mmApr
170
13°99 mmMay
150
17°91 mmJun
85
19°78 mmJul
30
19°72 mmAug
49
16°86 mmSep
130
11°96 mmOct
270
5°113 mmNov
350
1°103 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 30 m³/s in the lowest month to 350 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

Lim: the basin in numbers

5,700 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Heavily regulatedReservoirs can hold 12% of a year's flow: dams shape its seasons.
  • 222,000people live in the basin
  • 39/km²people per km²
  • 1,114maverage altitude of the basin
  • 1,090mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 7.3°Caverage air temperature
  • 2%protected areas
  • 0.2%covered by lakes
  • 0.5km³held in reservoirs

What covers the basin

  • 42% Forest
  • 20% Cropland
  • 16% Pasture
  • 1% 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

Lim: what you find on the way

  • 2Dams
  • 2Weirs
  • 3WaterfallsVodopad Skakavac
  • 1Boat rentals
  • 9River beachesPlaža Lukin fir, Plaža Rijeka Marsenića, Plaža Mreže and 6 more

From OpenStreetMap, within 1.7 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Lim 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
  • 133mountains at the sourcePeakyas

Lakes and reservoirs (1)

Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas

  1. Lake Plavkm 19 · 9 m deep1.7km²

Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗

Mountains at the source (133)

Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas

  1. Kučki Kom8.6 km away · prominence 1,131 m2,487m
  2. Vasojevićki Kom9.9 km away2,461m
  3. Ljevorečki Kom9.3 km away2,470m
  4. Trojan12 km away2,190m
  5. Kučko Ramo (Trorogi krš)8.4 km away2,337m
  6. Rogamski vrh8.1 km away2,303m
  7. Surdup7.0 km away2,184m
  8. Suvovrh7.1 km away2,211m

125 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗

From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Lim: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Lim: satellite view of the mouth
The mouth10 km across

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

Lim in pictures

Lim and Drina
Julian Nyča · CC BY-SA 3.0

Tributaries

Where it flows, and what flows into it

It flows into

DrinaSerbiaSerbia346 km120 m³/s

Tributaries (2)

UvacBosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina119 km18 m³/sjoins at km 180

Also: Bistrica

In the same basin

DanubeRomaniaRomania2,850 km5,400 m³/sTiszaSerbiaSerbia966 km800 m³/sSavaSerbiaSerbia945 km1,700 m³/sDravaCroatiaCroatia720 km620 m³/sInnGermanyGermany517 km740 m³/sPrutMoldovaMoldova953 km120 m³/sIsarGermanyGermany292 km170 m³/sMoravaAustriaAustria388 km110 m³/sSiret RiverRomaniaRomania740 km230 m³/sOlt RiverRomaniaRomania615 km170 m³/s

Nearby

Rivers nearby

UvacBosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina119 km18 m³/s23 km awayTaraBosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina144 km25 m³/s52 km awayPivaBosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina34 km14 m³/s52 km awaySavaSerbiaSerbia945 km1,700 m³/s157 km awayIbarSerbiaSerbia276 km110 m³/s125 km awayTiszaSerbiaSerbia966 km800 m³/s177 km awayNeretvaCroatiaCroatia225 km380 m³/s162 km awayBosnaBosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina282 km140 m³/s160 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q167916) · CC0
Course, profile, basinRiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata
FlowWaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Climate along the riverWorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Towns, bridges, damsWikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Along the river© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Our other atlasesLakeyas, 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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