River
Treska
132 km from source to mouth · North Macedonia.
North MacedoniaFlows into Vardar3rd longest in North Macedonia
In numbers
Length
132km
Average flow
2,300m³/s
Basin
2,350km²
Drop
398m
from 663 m to 265 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
132 km of river and 14 stops on the way: 12 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmStogovoat 663 m
- 10 kmDrugovo3,149 people
- 14 kmKičevo31,123 people
- 23 kmVraneštica1,265 people
- 26 kmLisičani1,188 people
- 34 kmPlasnica4,574 people
- 45 kmMakedonski Brod5,607 people
- 105 kmKozjak Lake13 km²
- 105 kmKozjak Hydro Power Plant
- 129 kmGrčec1,315 people
- 129 kmLjubin1,230 people
- 129 kmKondovo11,656 people
- 130 kmSaraj25,379 people
- 131 kmKrušopek1,277 people
- 132 kmGjorče Petro41,000 people
- 132 kmVardarat 265 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Macedonia
At the mouth it carries 2,334 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 1.1 seconds. It drops from 663 m to 265 m, 3.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,350 km², about the size of RE. 157,000 people live in it. Highest water: February; lowest: from July to September. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 77% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- Gjorče PetroLargest city on its banks · 41,000 people
- Skopje International Airport (SKP)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 23 km from the cityCar hire at SKP airport (Ilinden)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water4 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Treska, month by month
Highest water: February
Lowest water: from July to September. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 9.0 m³/s in the lowest month to 54 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
Treska: the basin in numbers
2,060 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 157,000people live in the basin
- 76/km²people per km²
- 1,022maverage altitude of the basin
- 789mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.7°Caverage air temperature
- 6%protected areas
- 0.6%covered by lakes
- 0.7km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 54% Forest
- 14% Cropland
- 23% Pasture
- 4% 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
Treska: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 1Waterfalls
- 2Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Treska 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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
12mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Kozjak Lakekm 92 · 135 m deep13km²
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Mountains at the source (12)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Stogovo5.7 km away2,273m
- Bandera8.7 km away1,960m
- Alipashitsa11 km away1,954m
- Ayrov Argach7.4 km away1,766m
- Veli Vrh12 km away1,704m
- Arap Kula15 km away1,667m
- Barbara2.3 km away1,652m
- Goljak12 km away1,535m
4 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
Treska in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Vardar
Greece388 km180 m³/sTributaries (3)
Also: Belica River, Rabetino River, Slanska River
Nearby
Rivers nearby
North Macedonia128 km14 m³/s34 km awayBlack Drin
Albania177 km50 m³/s79 km awayWhite DrinAlbania175 km56 m³/s79 km awayBregalnicaNorth Macedonia225 km28 m³/s65 km awayCrnaNorth Macedonia207 km37 m³/s74 km awayErenik
Kosovo51 km38 m³/s78 km awaySitnica
Serbia90 km95 m³/s108 km awayLlapiKosovo72 km5.0 m³/s88 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q26475) · 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 | Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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