River
Llapi
72 km from source to mouth · Kosovo.
KosovoFlows into Sitnica (Morača)1st longest in Kosovo
In numbers
Length
72km
Average flow
5.0m³/s
Basin
950km²
Drop
161m
from 681 m to 520 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
72 km of river and 3 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 681 m
- 17 kmBradash2,567 people
- 23 kmPodujeva35,000 people
- 39 kmBatlavatributary
- 72 kmSitnica (Morača)at 520 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Kosovo
At the mouth it carries 5.0 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 499 seconds. It drops from 681 m to 520 m, 2.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 950 km², about the size of HK. 515,000 people live in it. Highest water: February; lowest: August. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (11% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- PodujevaLargest city on its banks · 35,000 people
- Priština Adem Jashari International Airport (PRN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 40 km from the cityCar hire at PRN airport (Prishtina)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Llapi, month by month
Highest water: February
Lowest water: August. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 7.6 m³/s in the lowest month to 47 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
Llapi: the basin in numbers
2,427 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 515,000people live in the basin
- 212/km²people per km²
- 736maverage altitude of the basin
- 756mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.4°Caverage air temperature
- 1%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 24% Forest
- 37% Cropland
- 24% Pasture
- 15% 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
Llapi: what you find on the way
- 1Waterfalls
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Llapi 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.
63mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (63)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Čardak4.0 km away1,566m
- Goreljak5.4 km away1,360m
- Zlatna Čuka4.0 km away1,281m
- Madljika9.7 km away1,222m
- Ugljarski Krš12 km away1,182m
- Babina Čuka12 km away994m
- Glogovica9.3 km away962m
- Oštro Koplje12 km away
55 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
Llapi in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (3)
Also: Batlava, Kaçandoll river, Murgulska Reka
Romania
Croatia
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
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Serbia90 km95 m³/s20 km awayBlack Drin
Albania177 km50 m³/s90 km awayWhite DrinAlbania175 km56 m³/s90 km awayLumbardhi PejësKosovo62 km22 m³/s42 km awayIbarSerbia276 km110 m³/s109 km awayNišavaSerbia218 km100 m³/s95 km awayTreska
North Macedonia132 km2,300 m³/s88 km awayWest MoravaSerbia308 km120 m³/s110 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q786654) · 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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