Ombla
| Ombla | ||
 The confluence of the Ombla in the Adriatic Sea |
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| Data | ||
| location | Dubrovnik Municipality , Dubrovnik-Neretva County , Croatia | |
| River system | Ombla | |
| source |
Karst spring near Dubrovnik 42 ° 40 ′ 33 ″ N , 18 ° 8 ′ 10 ″ E |
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| Source height | 2.4 m | |
| muzzle | near Dubrovnik in the Adriatic Sea Coordinates: 42 ° 40 ′ 2 ″ N , 18 ° 4 ′ 37 ″ E 42 ° 40 ′ 2 ″ N , 18 ° 4 ′ 37 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | 0 m | |
| Height difference | 2.38 m | |
| Bottom slope | 12% | |
| length | 20 m - 4.2 km | |
| Drain |
MQ |
24 m³ / s |
| Navigable | 3.7 km | |
The Ombla (also Umbla or Dubrovačka rijeka ; river from Dubrovnik ) is a karst river in southern Dalmatia in Croatia . It is considered to be one of the shortest rivers in Europe . The Ombla rises as a powerful karst spring in a large cave near the Komolac district about five kilometers as the crow flies north of the city center of Dubrovnik .
Origin of the water
Most of the water in the Ombla is fed by the Trebišnjica River. This seeps away 20 km from the Ombla spring in the lower Popovo polje , near the Croatian border, in several crevice-like seepage points.
Data
Depending on how you look at it, the ombla is between 20 meters and 4.2 kilometers long, but quite wide and very rich in water; on the map it appears as the Adriatic bay north of Dubrovnik. Its mean discharge is 24 m³ / s and fluctuates between 2.8 and 106 m³ / s. The lower part of the river ( draga ) is already flooded by the sea, but can be seen as a clear undersea current. The water depth in this area is up to 30 m. The Ombla is navigable over a length of 3.7 km. Some suburbs of Dubrovnik ( Mokošica , Komolac, Rožat, Prijevor, Lozica ) stretch along the river, whose water has been used in the Dubrovnik waterworks since 1437. The part of the ombla that is not influenced by the sea is only approx. 20 m long. It is located above a weir in close proximity to the source.
Web links
- The shortest river in Europe
- Lexicon entry for »Ombla«. Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 15. Leipzig 1908, p. 57
- Image of the ombla source
Individual evidence
- ^ Neven Krešić, Ognjen Bonacci: Groundwater Hydrology of Springs: Engineering, Theory, Management, and Sustainability . Butterworth-Heinemann, 2009, ISBN 9781856175029 , pp. 154–156 (accessed June 21, 2012).
- ↑ Ombla Hydro Power Plant (English) ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
