Ampoi

Ampoi Ompoi, Ompoly
The Ampoi in Romania
Data
location	Transylvania ( Romania )
River system	Danube
Drain over	Mureș  → Tisza  → Danube  → Black Sea
source	in the Transylvanian Ore Mountains
Source height	approx.  1100  m
muzzle	at Alba Iulia in the Mureș coordinates: 46 ° 3 '14 "  N , 23 ° 35' 50"  E 46 ° 3 '14 "  N , 23 ° 35' 50"  E
Mouth height	230  m
Height difference	approx. 870 m
Bottom slope	approx. 15 ‰
length	approx. 60 km
Left tributaries	Ighiu , Ampoița , Feneș
Right tributaries	Trîmpoiele, Valea Mică
Medium-sized cities	Alba Iulia
Small towns	Zlatna
Communities	Meteș
The lower course of the Ampoi ( Ompoy Bach ), in the Josephine land survey from 1769–1773

The Ampoi or Ompoi ( Hungarian Ompoly ) is a right tributary of the Mureș ( Mieresch ) in the southwest of the Transylvanian Basin in Romania .

The river is also known by the outdated names Ampeie and Ampee .

River course

The Ampoi rises in the northeast of the Transylvanian Ore Mountains - a mountain range of the Apuseni Mountains -, southwest of the Petriceaua summit ( ⊙ 1142  m above sea level ), in the west of the Alba district . On the upper reaches, between the Transylvanian Ore Mountains (in the west) and the Trascău Mountains (in the east), the Ampoi flows in the area of ​​the small town of Zlatna ( Kleinschlatten ) over a length of about 26 kilometers in a south-easterly direction. South of the Trascau Mountains, the Ampoi flows mainly in an easterly direction and flows into the Mureș at Bărăbanț - an incorporated village of the city of Alba Iulia - after about 60 kilometers. The river has a catchment area of approx. 580 km².

Places along the Ampoi

The Ampoi flows through the places Zlatna , Șard ( Kothmarkt ), Meteș ( Meteschdorf ), Micești ( Kleindörfel ), Alba Iulia ( Karlsburg ).

The national road ( Drum național ) DN74 and the Alba Iulia – Zlatna railway line run along the Ampoi .

See also

• List of rivers in Romania

Web links

Commons : Ampoi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The terms Ampeie and Ampee in the Official Journal of the Old Academy of Sciences in Hungary on Google Books
2. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: The Strategic Plan for the Socio-Economic Development of the City of Zlatna ) accessed on December 8, 2011 (Romanian; PDF; 2.73 MB)
3. ↑ Ecological status of the Ampoi river by Doru Banaduc in 7th edition 2002 on Alpinet.org (Romanian)
4. ↑ The Ampoi in the Apuseni Mountains