River
Great Morava
185 km from source to mouth · Serbia.
SerbiaFlows into Danube10th longest in Serbia
In numbers
Length
185km
Average flow
230m³/s
Basin
37,500km²
Drop
595m
from 661 m to 66 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
185 km of river and 13 stops on the way: 7 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 661 m
- 55 kmArilje6,762 people
- 85 kmMeđuvršje Lake0.9 km²
- 97 kmČačak117,072 people
- 137 kmKraljevo82,846 people
- 168 kmTrstenik49,043 people
- 216 kmWest Moravatributary
- 216 kmSouth Moravatributary
- 252 kmĆuprija20,585 people
- 269 kmLugomirtributary
- 306 kmLapovo7,422 people
- 313 kmMarkovac4,462 people
- 316 kmResavatributary
- 339 kmJasenicatributary
- 399 kmDanubeat 66 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Serbia
At the mouth it carries 232 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 11 seconds. It drops from 661 m to 66 m, 3.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 37,500 km², about the size of GW. 3.5 million people live in it. Highest water: February, April and December. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (15% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- ČačakLargest city on its banks · 117,072 people
- Morava Airport (KVO)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 21 km from the cityCar hire at BEG airport (Belgrade)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Great Morava, month by month
Highest water: February, April and December
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 86 m³/s in the lowest month to 600 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
Great Morava: the basin in numbers
37,709 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 3.5millionpeople live in the basin
- 93/km²people per km²
- 626maverage altitude of the basin
- 737mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.4°Caverage air temperature
- 5%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
- 1.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 36% Forest
- 29% Cropland
- 20% Pasture
- 3% 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
Great Morava: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 2Waterfalls
- 2River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Great Morava 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
82mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Međuvršje Lakekm 850.9km²
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Mountains at the source (82)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Mučanj14 km away1,534m
- Javor8.3 km away1,519m
- Vasilin Vrh8.4 km away1,504m
- Crvena Gora9.3 km away1,215m
- Čekerevina14 km away
- Čuke14 km away
- Veliko Brdo14 km away
- Javoric14 km away
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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
Great Morava in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Danube
Romania2,850 km5,400 m³/sTributaries (6)
Also: Resava, Lugomir, Jasenica, Resavčina
Croatia
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
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Serbia945 km1,700 m³/s48 km awayTimiș RiverSerbia359 km47 m³/s35 km awayTiszaSerbia966 km800 m³/s76 km awayBega RiverRomania256 km13 m³/s78 km awayIbarSerbia276 km110 m³/s113 km awayDrinaSerbia346 km120 m³/s137 km awayWest MoravaSerbia308 km120 m³/s117 km awaySouth MoravaSerbia295 km100 m³/s117 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q211328) · 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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