River
West Morava
308 km from source to mouth · Serbia.
SerbiaFlows into Great Morava5th longest in Serbia
In numbers
Length
308km
Average flow
120m³/s
Basin
15,849km²
Drop
471m
from 603 m to 132 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
308 km of river and 10 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 603 m
- 27 kmUžice63,577 people
- 69 kmĐetinjatributary
- 69 kmGolijska Moravicatributary
- 98 kmMeđuvršje Lake0.9 km²
- 117 kmČačak117,072 people
- 181 kmKraljevo82,846 people
- 190 kmIbartributary
- 200 kmGruža (river)tributary
- 231 kmTrstenik49,043 people
- 289 kmRasinatributary
- 308 kmGreat Moravaat 132 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 125 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 20 seconds. It drops from 603 m to 132 m, 1.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 15,849 km², about the size of TL. 1.6 million people live in it. Highest water: February, April and December. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (16% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- ČačakLargest city on its banks · 117,072 people
- Morava Airport (KVO)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 21 km from the cityCar hire at BEG airport (Belgrade)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water5 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
West Morava, month by month
Highest water: February, April and December
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 45 m³/s in the lowest month to 310 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
West Morava: the basin in numbers
15,710 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.6millionpeople live in the basin
- 103/km²people per km²
- 720maverage altitude of the basin
- 846mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.0°Caverage air temperature
- 6%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 0.6km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 28% Forest
- 29% Cropland
- 14% Pasture
- 5% 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
West Morava: what you find on the way
- 14Weirs
- 7Waterfalls
- 4Boat ramps
- 4River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.9 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
West Morava 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
87mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Međuvršje Lakekm 620.9km²
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Mountains at the source (87)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Ovčar13 km away985m
- Kablar12 km away889m
- Drežnička Gradina13 km away932m
- Orovica9.5 km away856m
- Blagaja9.4 km away844m
- Debela gora8.7 km away791m
- Krstac11 km away699m
- Suvi Klan15 km away735m
79 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
West Morava in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Great MoravaSerbia185 km230 m³/sTributaries (5)
Also: Rasina, Đetinja, Golijska Moravica, Gruža (river)
Romania
Croatia
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q378985) · 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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