River
Nišava
218 km from source to mouth · Serbia and Bulgaria.
Serbia and BulgariaFlows into South Morava8th longest in Serbia
In numbers
Length
218km
Average flow
100m³/s
Basin
3,950km²
Drop
590m
from 764 m to 174 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
218 km of river and 3 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 764 m
- 57 kmZavoj Lake2.9 km²
- 94 kmTemšticatributary
- 187 kmNiš250,000 people
- 218 kmSouth Moravaat 174 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Serbia
At the mouth it carries 104 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 24 seconds. It drops from 764 m to 174 m, 2.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,950 km², about the size of CV. 1.1 million people live in it. Highest water: February, April and December. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (17% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- NišLargest city on its banks · 250,000 people
- Niš Constantine the Great Airport (INI)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 4 km from the cityCar hire at INI airport (Niš)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Nišava, month by month
Highest water: February, April and December
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 26 m³/s in the lowest month to 190 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
Nišava: the basin in numbers
13,725 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.1millionpeople live in the basin
- 79/km²people per km²
- 705maverage altitude of the basin
- 635mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.2°Caverage air temperature
- 5%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
- 0.4km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 55% Forest
- 21% Cropland
- 27% Pasture
- 2% 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
Nišava: what you find on the way
- 11Weirs
- 18WaterfallsCrveni breg, Kaludžerski, Cold Waterfall and 15 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.9 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Nišava 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
5mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Zavoj Lakekm 382.9km²
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Mountains at the source (5)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Kom Peak1.0 km away2,016m
- Todorini Kukli12 km away1,785m
- Srebrna glava peak5.1 km away1,645m
- Koznitsa12 km away
- Bitavica13 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.
Photos
Nišava in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
South MoravaSerbia295 km100 m³/sTributaries (3)
Also: Jerma, Temštica, Gaberska reka
Croatia
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
Rivers nearby
Serbia308 km120 m³/s44 km awayIbarSerbia276 km110 m³/s89 km awaySitnicaSerbia90 km95 m³/s93 km awayTimok
Romania189 km40 m³/s115 km awaySavaSerbia945 km1,700 m³/s190 km awayGreat MoravaSerbia185 km230 m³/s157 km awayLlapi
Kosovo72 km5.0 m³/s95 km awayJiu RiverRomania331 km94 m³/s170 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q583062) · 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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