Stream
Tara
144 km from source to mouth · Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.
Bosnia and Herzegovina and MontenegroFlows into Drina6th longest in Bosnia and Herzegovina
In numbers
Length
144km
Average flow
25m³/s
Basin
1,853km²
Drop
587m
from 1,031 m to 444 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
144 km of river and 4 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,031 m
- 19 kmKolašin2,989 people
- 39 kmMojkovac4,120 people
- 79 kmĐurđevića Tara Bridge
- 113 kmTara River Canyon
- 144 kmDrinaat 444 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina
At the mouth it carries 25 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 100 seconds. It drops from 1,031 m to 444 m, 4.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,853 km², about the size of GP. 45,000 people live in it. Highest water: March; lowest: from December to February and August. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (29% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- MojkovacLargest city on its banks · 4,120 people
- Podgorica Airport / Podgorica Golubovci Airbase (TGD)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 72 km from the cityCar hire at TGD airport (Podgorica)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water3 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe2 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Tara, month by month
Highest water: March
Lowest water: from December to February and August. Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 25 m³/s in the lowest month to 280 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
Tara: the basin in numbers
2,849 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 45,000people live in the basin
- 16/km²people per km²
- 1,391maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,192mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 6.1°Caverage air temperature
- 0.3%covered by lakes
- 0.9km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 44% Forest
- 25% Cropland
- 18% Pasture
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
Tara: what you find on the way
- 1WaterfallsBijela vrela
- 1RapidsĐavolje lazi
- 1Canoe put-insSplavište Drugi logor
- 3Boat ramps
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Tara 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.
153mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (153)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Kučki Kom11 km away · prominence 1,131 m2,487m
- Vasojevićki Kom13 km away2,461m
- Ljevorečki Kom12 km away2,470m
- Kučko Ramo (Trorogi krš)11 km away2,337m
- Rogamski vrh10 km away2,303m
- Surdup2.9 km away2,184m
- Suvovrh9.2 km away2,211m
- Maja e Pallavercës12 km away2,195m
145 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
Tara in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Drina
Serbia346 km120 m³/s
Romania
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
Rivers nearby
Bosnia and Herzegovina34 km14 m³/s5 km awayLimBosnia and Herzegovina220 km860 m³/s52 km awayUvacBosnia and Herzegovina119 km18 m³/s55 km awayNeretva
Croatia225 km380 m³/s115 km awayTrebišnjicaBosnia and Herzegovina187 km33 m³/s92 km awayMoračaMontenegro99 km15 m³/s129 km awayCem RiverMontenegro62 km260 m³/s118 km awayDrin
Albania280 km350 m³/s176 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q730378) · 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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