River
Uvac
119 km from source to mouth · Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.
Bosnia and Herzegovina and SerbiaFlows into Lim7th longest in Bosnia and Herzegovina
In numbers
Length
119km
Average flow
18m³/s
Basin
1,310km²
Drop
629m
from 997 m to 368 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
119 km of river and 2 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 997 m
- 33 kmSjeničko jezero2.4 km²
- 54 kmZlatar Lake5.2 km²
- 119 kmLimat 368 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Serbia
At the mouth it carries 18 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 139 seconds. It drops from 997 m to 368 m, 5.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,310 km², about the size of MQ. 210,000 people live in it. Highest water: from February to March and from November to December. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (13% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- RudoLargest city on its banks · 1,760 people
- Sarajevo International Airport (SJJ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 86 km from the cityCar hire at SJJ airport (Sarajevo)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Uvac, month by month
Highest water: from February to March and from November to December
Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 27 m³/s in the lowest month to 320 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
Uvac: the basin in numbers
4,953 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 210,000people live in the basin
- 42/km²people per km²
- 1,147maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,096mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.2°Caverage air temperature
- 2%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 0.5km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 38% Forest
- 23% Cropland
- 17% Pasture
- 1% 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
Uvac: what you find on the way
- 1Waterfalls
- 1Ferry piersLedena Pecina Sjenica
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Uvac 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.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
141mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Sjeničko jezerokm 27 · 108 m deep2.4km²
- Zlatar Lakekm 44 · 75 m deep5.2km²
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Mountains at the source (141)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Ozren3.4 km away1,693m
- Giljeva11 km away1,617m
- Katunić6.6 km away1,734m
- Platija11 km away1,466m
- Kablja Glava7.7 km away1,445m
- Orlovača5.3 km away1,435m
- Jastrebovac8.6 km away1,418m
- Jelenak5.8 km away1,386m
133 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
Uvac in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
LimBosnia and Herzegovina220 km860 m³/s
Romania
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
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Croatia225 km380 m³/s170 km awayTimiș RiverSerbia359 km47 m³/s169 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q978571) · 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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