River
Cetina
105 km from source to mouth · Croatia.
CroatiaFlows into Adriatic Sea7th longest in Croatia
In numbers
Length
105km
Average flow
100m³/s
Basin
3,700km²
Drop
366m
from 366 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
105 km of river and 8 stops on the way: 5 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 366 m
- 26 kmPeruća Lake15 km²
- 30 kmHrvace1,483 people
- 44 kmOtok2,807 people
- 53 kmTrilj1,906 people
- 83 kmGubavica (busay)
- 104 kmCetina (bridge)
- 104 kmOmiš5,985 people
- 104 kmDuće1,560 people
- 105 kmAdriatic Seaat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Croatia
At the mouth it carries 105 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 24 seconds. It drops from 366 m to 0 m, 3.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,700 km², about the size of CV. 65,000 people live in it. Highest water: December; lowest: from June to September. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 57% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- OmišLargest city on its banks · 5,985 people
- Brač Airport (BWK)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 18 km from the cityCar hire at SPU airport (Split)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe1 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Cetina, month by month
Highest water: December
Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 7.8 m³/s in the lowest month to 65 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
Cetina: the basin in numbers
1,333 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 65,000people live in the basin
- 49/km²people per km²
- 590maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,035mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 11.3°Caverage air temperature
- 2%protected areas
- 1.1%covered by lakes
- 0.6km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 4% Forest
- 49% Cropland
- 39% Pasture
- 1% 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
Cetina: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 4WaterfallsVelika Gubavica, Mala Gubavica and 2 more
- 1Canoe put-ins
- 1MarinasHarbour Omiš
- 2River beachesVelika plaža, Beach Galeb
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Cetina 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.
1waterfall on the riverCascadyas
1lake on its wayLakeyas
20beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
26mountains at the sourcePeakyas
3islands off the mouthIslandyas
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Gubavica (busay)km 81
Cascadyas is coming soonOpen Cascadyas ↗
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Peruća Lakekm 2515km²
Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗
Beaches (20)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Zlatni Rat Beach21 km away24.8°C
- Kasjuni Beach25 km away24.6°C
- Uvala Supaval22 km away · cove24.6°C
- Uvala Bačvice20 km away · cove24.6°C
- Ruskamen6.3 km away24.5°C
- Uvala Vela Luka14 km away · cove24.6°C
- Uvala Spliska10 km away · cove24.6°C
- Uvala Lovrečina8.0 km away · cove24.5°C
12 more on CoastyaOpen Coastya ↗
Mountains at the source (26)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Troglav14 km away · prominence 1,086 m1,913m
- Dinara10 km away · prominence 727 m1,831m
- Veliki bat9.4 km away1,853m
- Sredni Troglav14 km away1,705m
- Ledena Kosa15 km away1,690m
- Runjina Glavica11 km away1,638m
- Trt11 km away1,628m
- Slatke Glavice9.3 km away1,583m
18 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
Islands off the mouth (3)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Brač14 km away396km²
- Mrduja25 km away0.0km²
- Barbarinac22 km away
Islandyas is coming soonOpen Islandyas ↗
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
Cetina in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (2)
Also: Ruda, Rumin
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Croatia225 km380 m³/s77 km awayKrkaCroatia73 km50 m³/s73 km awayTrebišnjica
Bosnia and Herzegovina187 km33 m³/s108 km awayTaraBosnia and Herzegovina144 km25 m³/s170 km awayVrbasBosnia and Herzegovina240 km33 m³/s197 km awayUnaCroatia207 km200 m³/s200 km awaySanaBosnia and Herzegovina146 km69 m³/s181 km awayPivaBosnia and Herzegovina34 km14 m³/s174 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q522100) · 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 | Cascadyas, Lakeyas, Coastya, Peakyas, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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