Lana (river)
| Lana | ||
 The river in the city center of Tirana |
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| Data | ||
| location | Albania | |
| River system | Ishëm | |
| Drain over | Tirana River → Ishëm → Adriatic Sea | |
| source | On the western slope of Dajti 41 ° 21 ′ 59 ″ N , 19 ° 53 ′ 30 ″ E |
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| Source height | approx. 585 m | |
| muzzle | At Tirana airport coordinates: 41 ° 22 '28 " N , 19 ° 44' 55" E 41 ° 22 '28 " N , 19 ° 44' 55" E |
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| Mouth height | approx. 49 m | |
| Height difference | approx. 536 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 18 ‰ | |
| length | 29 km | |
| Catchment area | 67 km² | |
| Drain |
MQ |
500 l / s |
| Big cities | Tirana | |
| Medium-sized cities | Kamza , Kashar, Bërxull | |
| Communities | Dajt | |
The Lana ( Albanian also Lanë ) is a small river that crosses the center of the Albanian capital Tirana . It rises on the western slopes of Mount Dajti and flows westward through the whole city. In the center of Tirana, the Lana is set in a straight channel. Then it meanders through the plain in a north-westerly direction until, after 29 kilometers, it flows into the Tirana River as its largest tributary . The catchment area covers 67 square kilometers. The average annual runoff is around 0.5 m³ / s.
In the 1950s, the river in the center of Tirana was only canalized to around 1000 meters. Otherwise the course was still natural. It was not until 1960 that the Lana was put into a canalised bed throughout the city center. Since then, the arch bridge Ura e Tabakëve from the 18th century has stood a little off the river and only crosses an artificial pond. In the inner city area, multi-lane roads follow the course of the river on both sides, which are among the main traffic axes in the city center.
The once green bank area of the Lana in the city of Tirana, characterized by meadows, was built up during the 1990s. Only a few hundred meters east of the main street Bulevardi Dëshmorët e Kombit have the meadows on both sides of the river been preserved. The water at that time was heavily polluted, and the banks were not only built up, but also heavily polluted. Edi Rama , Mayor of Tirana from 2000 to 2011, had all illegal buildings removed from the city center parks and the green spaces restored after his election. Since 2004 the old state of the Lanaufern has been restored. However, wastewater should still be discharged . Below the city center of Tirana, the Lana is one of the most polluted waters in Albania.
The lower reaches of the Lana are now diverted a little north of the Durrës – Tirana motorway and led directly into the Tirana River via a canal a little longer than one and a half kilometers. The old, around seven kilometers long lower course, which runs parallel to the Tirana River to the south, is initially just a dry stream bed, which gradually fills again with water from tributaries and sewage and becomes a stream.
Tirana always has to struggle with small floods when the Lana overflows its banks after heavy rainfall. The sewer system is often blocked and does not allow any drainage, so that the lana swells and overflows. Although the situation has improved a lot since the 1990s, there are still neighborhoods that are occasionally flooded.
Surname
The river was mentioned as Lana as early as 1431 . Etymologically, the name is most likely with the old Albanian or old gegischen verb lânj to explain. The verb lânj has its equivalent in today's standard Albanian laj , which means something like “to wash away” or “to rinse away”.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Niko Pano: Pasuritë ujore të Shqipërisë . Akademia e Shkencave e Shqipërisë , Tirana 2008, ISBN 978-99956-10-23-4 .
- ↑ Besnik Aliaj, Keida Lulo and Genc Myftiu: Tirana - The Challenge of Urban Development . Tirana 2003, ISBN 99927-880-0-3 .
- ↑ Raporti për gjendjen e mjedisit 2014. (PDF (80.5 MB)) Albanian Ministry of the Environment, p. 51 ff. , Archived from the original on February 7, 2016 ; Retrieved April 30, 2016 (Albanian).
- ↑ The rain floods the streets of Tirana. Top Channel , October 27, 2012, accessed October 27, 2012 (Albanian).
- ↑ Robert Elsie : Hydronymica Albanica . In: Journal of Balkanology . 2nd, revised edition. 2014, p. 21 (English, first edition: 1994).