Morača
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Morača Морача |
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 The Morača valley north of Podgorica |
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| location | Montenegro | |
| River system | Buna | |
| Drain over | Buna → Mediterranean | |
| source | Kapa Moračka ( Opština Kolašin ) 42 ° 51 ′ 6 ″ N , 19 ° 14 ′ 7 ″ E |
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| Source height | 1600 m | |
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Skadar Lake coordinates: 42 ° 15 ′ 26 " N , 19 ° 8 ′ 46" E 42 ° 15 ′ 26 " N , 19 ° 8 ′ 46" E |
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| Mouth height | 2 m | |
| Height difference | 1600 m | |
| Bottom slope | 16 ‰ | |
| length | 99.5 km | |
| Catchment area | 3200 km² | |
| Left tributaries | Mala Rijeka , Cijevna | |
| Right tributaries | Zeta | |
| Big cities | Podgorica | |
The Morača ( Cyrillic Морача ) is a river in central Montenegro . It rises on the northern slope of the 2226 m high Kapa Moračka mountain near Ljevišta in the municipality of Kolašin and then flows 99.5 km mainly to the south, crosses the capital Podgorica and finally flows into the Skadar Lake ( Skadarsko Jezero ) at Vranjina . It is its greatest tributary.
In its upper reaches, the Morača is a rapid mountain river that crosses numerous gorges, including the better known Morača Gorge ( Morača klisura ), through which the main traffic flows from Podgorica to Serbia . A few kilometers north of the Morača Gorge is the Morača Monastery . The Zeta flows into the Morača near the ruins of the ancient city of Dioclea north of Podgorica . This enters the zeta level here. It is the only larger plain in Montenegro and opens to the south to Lake Skadar. The most important left tributary is the Cijevna , which flows into the southwest of Podgorica.
Since the Morača is a narrow and mostly shallow river, it is not navigable.
On June 23, 2013, near the Morača monastery in the municipality of Kolašin , a serious bus accident occurred in which 18 Romanian tourists were killed when their coach fell 40 meters from the Ždrijelo bridge ( location ) into the Morača gorge . The bus with 50 people was on its way to the Montenegrin Adriatic coast when it went off the road in a curve during a rain storm, presumably due to excessive speed.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Crna Gora u brojkama . Statistical Office of the Republic of Montenegro, Podgorica 2006 (p. 5) ( Memento of the original dated November 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Coach from Romania: Many dead in a bus accident in Montenegro. spiegel.de, June 24, 2013, accessed on August 2, 2014 .
