River
Ljubljanica
85 km from source to mouth · Slovenia.
SloveniaFlows into Sava3rd longest in Slovenia
In numbers
Length
85km
Average flow
25m³/s
Basin
1,890km²
Drop
384m
from 651 m to 267 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
85 km of river and 30 stops on the way: 14 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmRetovje Springsat 651 m
- 10 kmHrušica1,722 people
- 14 kmJesenice13,255 people
- 16 kmSlovenski Javornik2,002 people
- 22 kmZasip1,019 people
- 24 kmBled5,181 people
- 24 kmLake Bled1.3 km²
- 26 kmLesce2,835 people
- 30 kmRadovljica5,940 people
- 45 kmNaklo1,716 people
- 50 kmKranj37,966 people
- 51 kmZgornje Bitnje1,480 people
- 54 kmHrastje1,051 people
- 57 kmLake Trboje0.5 km²
- 63 kmLake Zbilje0.4 km²
- 63 kmMedvode5,380 people
- 65 kmZgornje Pirniče1,267 people
- 77 kmLjubljana284,293 people
- 77 kmSt. James's Bridge
- 77 kmButchers' Bridge
- 77 kmCobblers' Bridge
- 77 kmFabiani Bridge
- 77 kmGrain Bridge
- 77 kmHradecky Bridge
- 77 kmDragon Bridge
- 77 kmPrule Bridge
- 77 kmSt. Peter's Bridge
- 77 kmIškatributary
- 77 kmGradaščicatributary
- 80 kmFužine Bridge
- 85 kmBesnicatributary
- 85 kmSavaat 267 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Slovenia
At the mouth it carries 25 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 100 seconds. It drops from 651 m to 267 m, 4.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,890 km², about the size of GP. 333,000 people live in it. Highest water: February and from October to December. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- LjubljanaLargest city on its banks · 284,293 people
- Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 20 km from the cityCar hire at LJU airport (Zgornji Brnik)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water4 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe17 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Ljubljanica, month by month
Highest water: February and from October to December
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 32 m³/s in the lowest month to 110 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
Ljubljanica: the basin in numbers
2,310 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 333,000people live in the basin
- 144/km²people per km²
- 902maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,267mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 6.8°Caverage air temperature
- 57%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 85% Forest
- 9% Cropland
- 15% Pasture
- 8% 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
Ljubljanica: what you find on the way
- 44Weirs
- 5WaterfallsDobršniški slapovi, Slap Hudič babo pere, Šum and 2 more
- 17Rapids
- 1Boat ramps
- 1Marinas
- 4River beachesKamp Perun Lipce - plaža, Kopališče Sora, Jože's terraces and 1 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Ljubljanica 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.
3lakes on its wayLakeyas
92mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (3)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lake Bledkm 25 · 31 m deep1.3km²
- Lake Trbojekm 590.5km²
- Lake Zbiljekm 650.4km²
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Mountains at the source (92)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Triglav12 km away · prominence 2,059 m2,864m
- Škrlatica7.9 km away · prominence 982 m2,740m
- Mittagskogel5.3 km away · prominence 706 m2,145m
- Razor11 km away · prominence 332 m2,601m
- Prisojnik12 km away · prominence 547 m2,547m
- Kanjavec14 km away · prominence 438 m2,568m
- Špik7.5 km away · prominence 295 m2,472m
- Visoki Rokav7.2 km away · prominence 66 m2,646m
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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
Ljubljanica in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Sava
Serbia945 km1,700 m³/sTributaries (5)
Also: Iška, Gradaščica, Unica, Besnica, Borovniščica
Romania
Croatia
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
Rivers nearby
ItalyWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q339990) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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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