River
Crna
207 km from source to mouth · North Macedonia.
North MacedoniaFlows into Vardar2nd longest in North Macedonia
In numbers
Length
207km
Average flow
37m³/s
Basin
4,526km²
Drop
442m
from 569 m to 127 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
207 km of river and 15 stops on the way: 13 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmŽeleznecat 569 m
- 7 kmPlasnica4,574 people
- 18 kmMakedonski Brod5,607 people
- 76 kmKozjak Lake13 km²
- 99 kmKondovo11,656 people
- 99 kmSaraj25,379 people
- 102 kmGjorče Petro41,000 people
- 110 kmČair64,773 people
- 111 kmSkopje474,889 people
- 120 kmKisela Voda58,216 people
- 128 kmStudeničani18,219 people
- 131 kmPetrovec8,298 people
- 137 kmZelenikovo4,020 people
- 161 kmLake Mladost0.5 km²
- 168 kmVeles57,873 people
- 197 kmGradsko3,737 people
- 207 kmVardarat 127 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 37 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 68 seconds. It drops from 569 m to 127 m, 2.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 4,526 km², about the size of CV. 1.8 million people live in it. Highest water: from December to January; lowest: from August to September. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (25% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- SkopjeLargest city on its banks · 474,889 people
- Skopje International Airport (SKP)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 16 km from the cityCar hire at SKP airport (Ilinden)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water4 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Crna, month by month
Highest water: from December to January
Lowest water: from August to September. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 53 m³/s in the lowest month to 360 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
Crna: the basin in numbers
20,129 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.8millionpeople live in the basin
- 89/km²people per km²
- 832maverage altitude of the basin
- 628mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.6°Caverage air temperature
- 5%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 1.3km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 27% Forest
- 28% Cropland
- 25% Pasture
- 4% 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
Crna: what you find on the way
- 4Weirs
- 2Waterfalls
- 2Ferry piers
- 1River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.0 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Crna 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.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
10mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Kozjak Lakekm 69 · 135 m deep13km²
- Lake Mladostkm 1460.5km²
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Mountains at the source (10)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Buševa Mountain7.7 km away · prominence 1,233 m1,788m
- Kruševo5.8 km away1,458m
- Staniḱ10 km away1,414m
- Rupčinja4.6 km away1,302m
- Krusjče10 km away1,043m
- Kamen11 km away988m
- Tumba5.3 km away741m
- Aramiska Chuka14 km away735m
2 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
Crna in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Vardar
Greece388 km180 m³/sTributaries (10)
Also: Dragor, Sakoulevas, Žaba, Šemnica, Dunje River, Maloilinska Reka, Babinska Reka, Graeška Reka, Buturica, Raec River
Nearby
Rivers nearby
North Macedonia225 km28 m³/s9 km awayPčinjaNorth Macedonia128 km14 m³/s40 km awayTreskaNorth Macedonia132 km2,300 m³/s74 km awayStrumica
Bulgaria114 km100 m³/s106 km awayHaliacmonGreece297 km56 m³/s132 km awayBlack Drin
Albania177 km50 m³/s147 km awayWhite DrinAlbania175 km56 m³/s147 km awayStrumaGreece415 km80 m³/s177 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1140644) · 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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