River
Bregalnica
225 km from source to mouth · North Macedonia.
North MacedoniaFlows into Vardar1st longest in North Macedonia
In numbers
Length
225km
Average flow
28m³/s
Basin
4,307km²
Drop
694m
from 831 m to 137 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
225 km of river and 9 stops on the way: 6 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmLjutačka Riverat 831 m
- 3 kmBerovo13,847 people
- 57 kmDelcevo17,415 people
- 85 kmKalimanci Lake3.9 km²
- 114 kmZrnovci3,236 people
- 127 kmOblesevo4,972 people
- 144 kmKarbinci3,900 people
- 158 kmShtip48,279 people
- 167 kmOtinjatributary
- 167 kmLakavicatributary
- 225 kmVardarat 137 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in North Macedonia
At the mouth it carries 28 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 89 seconds. It drops from 831 m to 137 m, 3.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 4,307 km², about the size of CV. 214,000 people live in it. Highest water: from November to December; lowest: from August to September. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (17% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- ShtipLargest city on its banks · 48,279 people
- Skopje International Airport (SKP)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 53 km from the cityCar hire at SKP airport (Ilinden)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Bregalnica, month by month
Highest water: from November to December
Lowest water: from August to September. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 7.7 m³/s in the lowest month to 57 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
Bregalnica: the basin in numbers
4,299 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 214,000people live in the basin
- 50/km²people per km²
- 726maverage altitude of the basin
- 516mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.2°Caverage air temperature
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 18% Forest
- 32% Cropland
- 32% 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
Bregalnica: what you find on the way
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Bregalnica 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
11mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Kalimanci Lakekm 60 · 80 m deep3.9km²
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Mountains at the source (11)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Ogreyak6.5 km away1,924m
- Maleshevo6.5 km away1,288m
- Bukovik7.1 km away1,723m
- Kadan Bunar5.9 km away1,725m
- Vlahina15 km away1,212m
- Ponornica11 km away1,458m
- Runtevica13 km away1,175m
- Mogilata15 km away944m
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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
Bregalnica in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Vardar
Greece388 km180 m³/sTributaries (5)
Also: Otinja, Kočanska River, Lakavica, Želevica, Osojnica
Nearby
Rivers nearby
North Macedonia207 km37 m³/s9 km awayPčinjaNorth Macedonia128 km14 m³/s32 km awayTreskaNorth Macedonia132 km2,300 m³/s65 km awayStrumica
Bulgaria114 km100 m³/s114 km awayBlack Drin
Albania177 km50 m³/s138 km awayWhite DrinAlbania175 km56 m³/s138 km awayHaliacmonGreece297 km56 m³/s139 km awayStrumaGreece415 km80 m³/s186 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q849296) · 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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