River
Bosna
282 km from source to mouth · Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bosnia and HerzegovinaFlows into Sava1st longest in Bosnia and Herzegovina
In numbers
Length
282km
Average flow
140m³/s
Basin
10,500km²
Drop
411m
from 494 m to 83 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
282 km of river and 23 stops on the way: 15 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmVrelo Bosneat 494 m
- 4 kmPlandište Bridge in Ilidža
- 4 kmIlidža71,277 people
- 6 kmŽeljeznicatributary
- 10 kmMiljackatributary
- 16 kmVogošća8,180 people
- 28 kmIlijaš5,855 people
- 39 kmVisoko17,890 people
- 40 kmFojnica rivertributary
- 46 kmGornje Moštre4,009 people
- 51 kmDobrinje3,987 people
- 62 kmKakanj12,406 people
- 82 kmLašvatributary
- 96 kmZenica70,553 people
- 141 kmŽepče8,502 people
- 153 kmDubravica3,868 people
- 155 kmZavidovići14,380 people
- 156 kmKrivajatributary
- 180 kmMaglaj7,399 people
- 202 kmUsoratributary
- 207 kmDoboj68,514 people
- 208 kmSprečatributary
- 257 kmModriča8,996 people
- 280 kmŠamac3,599 people
- 282 kmSavaat 83 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
At the mouth it carries 142 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 18 seconds. It drops from 494 m to 83 m, 1.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 10,500 km², about the size of LB. 1.5 million people live in it. Highest water: February, April and December. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- IlidžaLargest city on its banks · 71,277 people
- Sarajevo International Airport (SJJ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 2 km from the cityCar hire at SJJ airport (Sarajevo)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Bosna, month by month
Highest water: February, April and December
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 46 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
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The basin
Bosna: the basin in numbers
10,490 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.5millionpeople live in the basin
- 144/km²people per km²
- 670maverage altitude of the basin
- 947mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.0°Caverage air temperature
- 0.1%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 51% Forest
- 14% Cropland
- 16% Pasture
- 7% 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
Bosna: what you find on the way
- 16Weirs
- 6LocksMala Bosna and 5 more
- 6Waterfalls
- 2Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.8 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Bosna 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.
49mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (49)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Trebević15 km away · prominence 343 m1,629m
- Bjelašnica (peak)13 km away2,067m
- Velika Vlahinja11 km away1,941m
- Mala Vlahinja11 km away1,879m
- Ljute Strane14 km away1,826m
- Brloge15 km away1,739m
- Hranisava14 km away1,700m
- Bucalovine12 km away1,646m
41 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
Bosna in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Sava
Serbia945 km1,700 m³/sTributaries (11)
Also: Miljacka, Lašva, Spreča, Usora, Krivaja, Fojnica river, Željeznica, Zujevina, Trstionica, Zgošća, Ljubina (Bosna)
Romania
Croatia
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q208367) · 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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