River
Sitnica
90 km from source to mouth · Serbia.
SerbiaFlows into Ibar
In numbers
Length
90km
Average flow
95m³/s
Basin
3,129km²
Drop
61m
from 546 m to 485 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
90 km of river and 12 stops on the way: 6 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 546 m
- 11 kmLipljan9,047 people
- 32 kmDrenicatributary
- 39 kmKosovo Polje16,154 people
- 40 kmGračankatributary
- 43 kmObiliq11,612 people
- 57 kmLlapitributary
- 68 kmVushtrri Stone Bridge
- 68 kmVigu i Novolanit
- 70 kmVushtrri30,651 people
- 71 kmBridge of Silnica (Vushtrri)
- 86 kmMitrovicë107,045 people
- 90 kmZvečan17,000 people
- 90 kmIbarat 485 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 95 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 26 seconds. It drops from 546 m to 485 m, 0.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,129 km², about the size of LU. 673,000 people live in it. Highest water: February; lowest: August. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (35% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- MitrovicëLargest city on its banks · 107,045 people
- Priština Adem Jashari International Airport (PRN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 37 km from the cityCar hire at PRN airport (Prishtina)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Sitnica, month by month
Highest water: February
Lowest water: August. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 17 m³/s in the lowest month to 91 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
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The basin
Sitnica: the basin in numbers
4,084 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 673,000people live in the basin
- 165/km²people per km²
- 858maverage altitude of the basin
- 835mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.7°Caverage air temperature
- 0.3%covered by lakes
- 0.4km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 32% Forest
- 33% Cropland
- 22% Pasture
- 11% 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
Sitnica: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Sitnica 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.
14mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (14)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Kurkulica14 km away
- Podi i Kodres6.6 km away
- Kara Husa14 km away
- Zbinac12 km away
- Majamad13 km away
- Kodra e Bajrakut7.5 km away
- Lovka5.7 km away
- Crkven Kamen14 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
Sitnica in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
IbarSerbia276 km110 m³/s
Romania
Croatia
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
Rivers nearby
Kosovo72 km5.0 m³/s20 km awayBlack Drin
Albania177 km50 m³/s98 km awayWhite DrinAlbania175 km56 m³/s98 km awayLumbardhi PejësKosovo62 km22 m³/s44 km awayWest MoravaSerbia308 km120 m³/s99 km awaySouth MoravaSerbia295 km100 m³/s99 km awayNišavaSerbia218 km100 m³/s93 km awayErenikKosovo51 km38 m³/s66 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1066857) · 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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