Čierna voda (Little Danube)

Čierna voda
The Čierna voda at the Kráľová pri Senci Secession Bridge
Data
location	Slovakia
River system	Danube
Drain over	Little Danube  → Waag  → Danube  → Black Sea
source	at Svätý Jur
length	105.5 km
Catchment area	2188 km²

The Čierna voda (German black water ) is a river in western Slovakia . The length varies depending on the source: 55.2 km or 105.5 km. This depends on whether the Stará Čierna voda arm is included in the main river. The Čierna voda is a typical lowland river with numerous meanders, arms and canals that connect the river with other bodies of water.

The river is formed by the confluence of several streams at Svätý Jur , all of which have their source in the Little Carpathians in the area between Svätý Jur and Pezinok ; the largest is the Blatina . Immediately afterwards the Čierna voda flows through the nature reserve Šúr , a wetland with remains of the original alder forest and peat bogs. The river then runs through the Danube lowlands east of Bratislava in an easterly direction; The places through which it flows are Čierna Voda (district of Chorvátsky Grob ), Bernolákovo , Nová Dedinka , Tureň and Kráľová pri Senci . North of Veľké Úľany , the river changes its predominant direction to the south and southeast; at Čierna Voda branches off an artificially built connection that flows into the Little Danube west of Tomášikovo .

After the branch the river is called Stará Čierna voda and flows through Vozokany and Tomášikovo and turns in an easterly direction until it takes the Dudváh at Kráľov Brod . On the last section, the Stará Čierna voda flows south again and joins the Little Danube south of Dolný Chotár and east of Topoľníky .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Čiastkové povodie Váhu (PDF; 158 kB), VÚVH (Slovak), accessed on October 27, 2013
2. ^ Kopa, Ľudovít et al .: The Encyclopaedia of Slovakia and the Slovaks . Encyclopedic Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava 2006, ISBN 80-224-0925-1 .