River
Cem River
62 km from source to mouth · Montenegro and Albania.
Montenegro and AlbaniaFlows into Morača2nd longest in Montenegro
In numbers
Length
62km
Average flow
260m³/s
Basin
368km²
Drop
438m
from 449 m to 11 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
62 km of river and 1 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 449 m
- 62 kmMojanovići1,800 people
- 62 kmMoračaat 11 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Montenegro and Albania
At the mouth it carries 255 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 9.8 seconds. It drops from 449 m to 11 m, 7.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 368 km².
Where to start
- MojanovićiLargest city on its banks · 1,800 people
- Podgorica Airport / Podgorica Golubovci Airbase (TGD)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 3 km from the cityCar hire at TGD airport (Podgorica)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- Kayak and canoe1 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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Along the river
Cem River: what you find on the way
- 10Weirs
- 2WaterfallsNijagara
- 1Canoe put-ins
- 3River beachesCijevna - Smokva, Cijevna - Kod Ljuljanovića, Cijevna - Zidine
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Cem River 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.
113mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (113)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Jezercë12 km away · prominence 2,036 m2,694m
- Radohina10 km away2,568m
- Maja e Rosit12 km away2,523m
- Popluka12 km away2,569m
- Maja e Madhe5.6 km away2,552m
- Maja Bojs9.4 km away2,460m
- Veliki vrh6.7 km away2,490m
- Maja Vukocës6.0 km away2,450m
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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
Cem River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
MoračaMontenegro99 km15 m³/s
KosovoNearby
Rivers nearby
Albania280 km350 m³/s58 km awayBunaAlbania40 km680 m³/s58 km awayRibnicaMontenegro57 km67 m³/s10 km awayBlack DrinAlbania177 km50 m³/s102 km awayWhite DrinAlbania175 km56 m³/s102 km awayMatAlbania115 km100 m³/s84 km awayTara
Bosnia and Herzegovina144 km25 m³/s118 km awayPivaBosnia and Herzegovina34 km14 m³/s115 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q185615) · 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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