Piva (river)
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Piva Пива |
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 View into the Piva gorge |
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| location | Montenegro , Bosnia-Herzegovina | |
| River system | Danube | |
| Drain over | Drina → Save → Danube → Black Sea | |
| confluence | with tare to the Drina near Hum / Šćepan Polje Coordinates: 43 ° 20 ′ 54 " N , 18 ° 50 ′ 22" E 43 ° 20 ′ 54 " N , 18 ° 50 ′ 22" E
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| length | 34 km (with source rivers 120 km) | |
| Catchment area | 1270 km² | |
| Reservoirs flowed through | Mratinje dam | |
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 Hydrographic map of the southeastern Dinarides |
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The Piva (Cyrillic Пива) is a river in Montenegro . It is the shorter of the two source rivers of the Drina , which emerges from the confluence of the Piva with the Tara on the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina .
course
The Piva rises from the Sinjac source (Cyrillic: Сињац) in the Golija Mountains, near the Piva monastery (also Vrelo Pive; Cyrillic: Врело Пиве; German source of Piva, literally the eye of Piva). Before the Piva reservoir was dammed, the water flowed from the spring into the Komarnica River (Cyrillic: Комарница) to form the Piva River for the next 34 km. The Komarnica itself is part of an 86 km long river system (Tušina-Bukovica-Bijela-Komarnica), so that - measured from the source of the Tušina (Cyrillic: Тушина) - the Piva, which is also jokingly called the river with the five names , is a total of 120 km long.
The Tušina rises on the Sinjajevina mountain in the Uskoci region in central Montenegro, just a few kilometers from the source of the Morača . The Tušina initially flows westwards, between the Sinjajevina and Lola Mountains, past the villages of Krnja Jela , Bare , Boan and Tušina . There it picks up the Bukovica flowing in from the north and continues its course under this name. After the river has passed the regional center of Šavnik and the villages Gradac and Pridvorica in the Drobnjaci region, it takes on the Komarnica and now takes its name. The Komarnica continues its course through the Vojnik and Treskavac mountains in an almost uninhabited area, and reaches the plateau of the Piva plateau, where it turns north. Almost the entire course of the Komarnica is now flooded by the Piva reservoir . The Komarnica absorbs the water from the Piva spring, henceforth called Piva, and enters the deep Piva gorge.
The gorge cuts between the Bioč , Volujak , Maglić and Pivska planina mountains, is 33 km long and up to 1,200 m deep. The Piva is dammed by the 220 m high Mratinje Dam, completed in 1976 . The Piva reservoir is 33 km long, occupies an area of 12.5 km², is up to 188 m deep and is the largest reservoir in Montenegro. It floods the original location of the Piva monastery , which in order to preserve it was completely demolished and rebuilt at its current location.
At Plužine - coming from the west - the Vrbnica pours into the Piva reservoir. After the dam, the Piva continues its course straight north. At Šćepan Polje or Hum on the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina it unites with the Tara to the Drina.
The Piva belongs to the Black Sea catchment area . The catchment area of the Piva covers 1,270 km². The Piva is not navigable .
Piva plateau
The Piva Plateau (Montenegrin: Pivska površ, Cyrillic: Пивска површ) is a high karst plain in the catchment area of the Piva, between the Durmitor , Maglić, Lebršnik , Golija and Vojnik mountains. The plateau is 55 km long, 30 km wide and has an average height of 1,200 m, with the highest elevation being 2,159 m high. The Komarnica-Piva divides the plateau into two regions: the western Pivska Župa (Cyrillic: Пивска Жупа) and the eastern Pivska planina (Cyrillic: Пивска планина). The area is characterized by karst formations such as caves, sinkholes and washouts. The high plateau is only sparsely populated, so there are only about 20 small settlements in Pivska Župa and 15 in Pivska planina.
Web links
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- Mala Prosvetina Enciklopedija , Third edition (1985); Prosveta; ISBN 86-07-00001-2
- Jovan Đ. Marković (1990): Enciklopedijski geografski leksikon Jugoslavije ; Svjetlost-Sarajevo; ISBN 86-01-02651-6