River
South Morava
295 km from source to mouth · Serbia and North Macedonia.
Serbia and North MacedoniaFlows into Great Morava6th longest in Serbia
In numbers
Length
295km
Average flow
100m³/s
Basin
15,469km²
Drop
356m
from 488 m to 132 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
295 km of river and 11 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 488 m
- 0 kmVitina46,959 people
- 38 kmRanilug3,785 people
- 61 kmBinačka Moravatributary
- 162 kmVlasinatributary
- 171 kmVeternicatributary
- 183 kmJablanicatributary
- 190 kmPusta Rivertributary
- 196 kmToplicatributary
- 225 kmNišavatributary
- 244 kmSokobanjska Moravicatributary
- 246 kmAleksinac14,593 people
- 295 kmGreat Moravaat 132 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River
At the mouth it carries 100 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 25 seconds. It drops from 488 m to 132 m, 1.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 15,469 km², about the size of TL. 1.2 million people live in it. Highest water: from December to January. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (17% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- VitinaLargest city on its banks · 46,959 people
- Priština Adem Jashari International Airport (PRN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 38 km from the cityCar hire at PRN airport (Prishtina)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water10 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
South Morava, month by month
Highest water: from December to January
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 29 m³/s in the lowest month to 220 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
South Morava: the basin in numbers
15,550 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.2millionpeople live in the basin
- 76/km²people per km²
- 675maverage altitude of the basin
- 640mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.3°Caverage air temperature
- 5%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
- 0.4km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 53% Forest
- 22% Cropland
- 26% 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
South Morava: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 10Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.9 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
South Morava 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.
19mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (19)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Skopska Crna Gora1.6 km away1,651m
- Prosečenik1.0 km away1,539m
- Kodra Fura5.9 km away1,492m
- Rosen2.1 km away1,417m
- Biljak6.2 km away1,280m
- Guri e Mustafes12 km away1,016m
- Topan12 km away
- Sokolni Kamen6.1 km away
11 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
South Morava in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Great MoravaSerbia185 km230 m³/sTributaries (8)
Also: Vlasina, Jablanica, Veternica, Toplica, Binačka Morava, Sokobanjska Moravica, Pusta River
Romania
Croatia
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q591974) · 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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