River
Sana
146 km from source to mouth · Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bosnia and HerzegovinaFlows into Una5th longest in Bosnia and Herzegovina
In numbers
Length
146km
Average flow
69m³/s
Basin
3,370km²
Drop
239m
from 356 m to 117 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
146 km of river and 7 stops on the way: 6 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmBosnia and Herzegovinaat 356 m
- 31 kmKljuč7,245 people
- 51 kmPeći3,650 people
- 54 kmKamičak Fortress
- 76 kmSanski Most13,551 people
- 108 kmPrijedor36,347 people
- 129 kmSvodna4,388 people
- 145 kmNovi Grad8,920 people
- 146 kmUnaat 117 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Bosnia and Herzegovina
At the mouth it carries 69 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 36 seconds. It drops from 356 m to 117 m, 1.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,370 km², about the size of CV. 241,000 people live in it. Highest water: from November to December. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- PrijedorLargest city on its banks · 36,347 people
- Banja Luka International Airport (BNX)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 46 km from the cityCar hire at ZAG airport (Velika Gorica)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Sana, month by month
Highest water: from November to December
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 17 m³/s in the lowest month to 100 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.
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The basin
Sana: the basin in numbers
2,889 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 241,000people live in the basin
- 84/km²people per km²
- 391maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,031mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.0°Caverage air temperature
- 0.4%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 36% Forest
- 15% Cropland
- 18% Pasture
- 2% 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
Sana: what you find on the way
- 6Weirs
- 2Waterfalls
- 4River beachesAlina luka, Plaža Šehiti, Gradska plaža and 1 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Sana 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.
39mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (39)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Mali Dimitor12 km away1,483m
- Tetrejski Vrh8.0 km away1,479m
- Pustinjak13 km away1,469m
- Kuranov Kuk14 km away1,441m
- Opaljeni Do9.6 km away1,383m
- Markanov Vrh12 km away1,373m
- Kutljarevac9.9 km away1,358m
- Bezistan14 km away1,339m
31 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
Sana in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Una
Croatia207 km200 m³/sTributaries (3)
Also: Sanica, Bliha, Zdena
Romania
Serbia
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
Rivers nearby
Croatia297 km280 m³/s41 km awayVrbasBosnia and Herzegovina240 km33 m³/s90 km awayKoranaCroatia144 km86 m³/s80 km awayMurCroatia434 km170 m³/s138 km awayKrka
Slovenia93 km170 m³/s111 km awaySutlaCroatia90 km170 m³/s103 km awayBosnaBosnia and Herzegovina282 km140 m³/s164 km awayKrkaCroatia73 km50 m³/s153 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q904765) · 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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