River
Morača
99 km from source to mouth · Montenegro.
MontenegroFlows into Lake Skadar1st longest in Montenegro
In numbers
Length
99km
Average flow
15m³/s
Basin
3,200km²
Drop
484m
from 485 m to 1 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
99 km of river and 11 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 485 m
- 64 kmMoscow Bridge
- 64 kmMillennium Bridge
- 64 kmPodgorica236,852 people
- 64 kmBlažo Jovanović Bridge
- 67 kmRibnicatributary
- 82 kmSitnica (Morača)tributary
- 82 kmCem Rivertributary
- 83 kmMojanovići1,800 people
- 83 kmGolubovci3,110 people
- 85 kmGoričani1,205 people
- 90 kmGornje Malo Blato6.2 km²
- 99 kmLake Skadarat 1 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Montenegro
At the mouth it carries 15 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 167 seconds. It drops from 485 m to 1 m, 4.9 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,200 km², about the size of LU. 160,000 people live in it. Highest water: from November to January; lowest: from June to September. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- PodgoricaLargest city on its banks · 236,852 people
- Podgorica Airport / Podgorica Golubovci Airbase (TGD)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 9 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 May to AugustThe best months to visit
Morača, month by month
Highest water: from November to January
Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from May to August.
From about 39 m³/s in the lowest month to 200 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
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The basin
Morača: the basin in numbers
2,224 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 160,000people live in the basin
- 72/km²people per km²
- 844maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,379mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.0°Caverage air temperature
- 0.2%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 26% Forest
- 28% Cropland
- 23% Pasture
- 4% 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
Morača: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 3WaterfallsSvetigora
- 1Marinas
- 2River beachesPlaža Labud, Plaža Sastavci
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Morača 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
224mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Gornje Malo Blatokm 776.2km²
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Mountains at the source (224)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Babin vrh12 km away2,277m
- Kapa Moračka2.8 km away · prominence 686 m2,216m
- Torna (Bablji zub)12 km away · prominence 814 m2,253m
- Zagradac2.8 km away2,216m
- Suvi Vrh4.1 km away2,037m
- Bandijerna11 km away1,853m
- Veliki Siljevac15 km away
- Skorin Vrh15 km away
216 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
Morača in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (5)
Also: Zeta, Sitnica (Morača), Mareza
KosovoNearby
Rivers nearby
Albania280 km350 m³/s48 km awayCem RiverMontenegro62 km260 m³/s12 km awayBunaAlbania40 km680 m³/s48 km awayRibnicaMontenegro57 km67 m³/s22 km awayMatAlbania115 km100 m³/s75 km awayBlack DrinAlbania177 km50 m³/s102 km awayWhite DrinAlbania175 km56 m³/s102 km awayShkumbinAlbania181 km620 m³/s138 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q157736) · 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 |
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