River
Piva
34 km from source to mouth · Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.
Bosnia and Herzegovina and MontenegroFlows into Drina8th longest in Bosnia and Herzegovina
In numbers
Length
34km
Average flow
14m³/s
Basin
1,270km²
Drop
161m
from 637 m to 476 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
34 km of river and 2 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmGolijaat 637 m
- 7 kmKomarnicatributary
- 26 kmLake Piva8.0 km²
- 34 kmDrinaat 476 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro
At the mouth it carries 14 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 179 seconds. It drops from 637 m to 476 m, 4.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,270 km², about the size of MQ. 5,345 people live in it. Highest water: March; lowest: from January to February and from July to August. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 67% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- FočaLargest city on its banks · 14,615 people
- Sarajevo International Airport (SJJ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 50 km from the cityCar hire at SJJ airport (Sarajevo)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
Piva, month by month
Highest water: March
Lowest water: from January to February and from July to August. Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 11 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.
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The basin
Piva: the basin in numbers
1,146 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 5,345people live in the basin
- 5/km²people per km²
- 1,418maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,204mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 6.0°Caverage air temperature
- 0.7%covered by lakes
- 0.9km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 19% Forest
- 42% Cropland
- 19% Pasture
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
Piva: what you find on the way
- 1Boat ramps
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Piva 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
191mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lake Pivakm 298.0km²
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Mountains at the source (191)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Bobotov Kuk15 km away · prominence 1,478 m2,522m
- Prutaš13 km away · prominence 318 m2,393m
- Bezimeni vrh15 km away2,487m
- Đevojka14 km away · prominence 35 m2,440m
- Lučin vrh15 km away · prominence 45 m2,351m
- Gruda13 km away · prominence 72 m2,302m
- Uvita Greda15 km away · prominence 45 m2,199m
- Boljska Greda12 km away2,091m
183 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
Piva in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Drina
Serbia346 km120 m³/sTributaries (1)
Also: Komarnica
Romania
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
Rivers nearby
Bosnia and Herzegovina144 km25 m³/s5 km awayLimBosnia and Herzegovina220 km860 m³/s52 km awayUvacBosnia and Herzegovina119 km18 m³/s53 km awayNeretva
Croatia225 km380 m³/s118 km awayTrebišnjicaBosnia and Herzegovina187 km33 m³/s94 km awayMoračaMontenegro99 km15 m³/s125 km awayCem RiverMontenegro62 km260 m³/s115 km awayDrin
Albania280 km350 m³/s172 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1165492) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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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