Buna (Neretva)

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Buna
The Buna in Blagaj

The Buna in Blagaj

Data
location Bosnia and Herzegovina
River system Neretva
Drain over Neretva  → Adriatic Sea
source Buna spring in Blagaj
43 ° 15 ′ 25 ″  N , 17 ° 54 ′ 15 ″  E
Spring discharge MQ
43 m³ / s
muzzle in the Neretva coordinates: 43 ° 14 ′ 28 "  N , 17 ° 50 ′ 0"  E 43 ° 14 ′ 28 "  N , 17 ° 50 ′ 0"  E

length 9 km

The Buna is a left tributary of the Neretva in the southeast of Bosnia and Herzegovina .

course

It rises out of a 200-meter-deep rock cave on the outskirts of Blagaj and flows into the Neretva after only 9 kilometers. The Buna spring is one of the strongest karst springs in Europe with a discharge of 43,000 liters per second. The water temperature is 10 degrees Celsius.

The source site had already impressed a Turkish sultan so much that he found a Tekija there in the 16th century . H. a monastery for a dervish - Order was built.

literature

  • Heinrich Renner: Blagaj und die Bunaquelle , in (ders.): Through Bosnia and Hercegovina criss-cross , (original 1896), digitized reprint 2008, p. 266ff. in books.google

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Google Earth