Prača
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Prača Прача |
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 In the Prača valley near Renovica |
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| location | Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
| River system | Danube | |
| Drain over | Drina → Save → Danube → Black Sea | |
| source | near Vrhprača (municipality of Pale ) below the mountain Paloševina on the northern slope of the Jahorina mountain approx. 20 km southeast of Sarajevo | |
| Source height | 1540 m | |
| muzzle | In Ustiprača in the Drina Coordinates: 43 ° 41 ′ 29 ″ N , 19 ° 5 ′ 5 ″ E 43 ° 41 ′ 29 ″ N , 19 ° 5 ′ 5 ″ E
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| length | 61 km | |
| Small towns | Rogatica | |
| Communities | Pale-Prača | |
The Prača ( Serbian - Cyrillic Прача ) is a left tributary of the Drina in Bosnia and Herzegovina . It rises near the village of Vrhprača (municipality of Pale ) on the northern slope of the Jahorina Mountains about 20 km southeast of Sarajevo . In Ustiprača the river flows into the Drina after 61 km.
Run
The source of the Prača is located below the Paloševina mountain at 1540 m above sea level. NN in the Jahorina National Park . For the first 10 km, the Prača valley divides the mountain ranges of the Jahorina and the Ravna planina . In Podgrab below the 1050 m high Vitez Pass , the Prača receives tributaries from the west and from the Romanija mountains to the north . From now on it runs consistently in an easterly direction through a deep, narrow gorge between Jahorina and Romanija and crosses the municipality of Pale-Prača in the canton of Bosnian Podrinje with its main town of Prača . During the Bosnian War , the gorge was the only traffic corridor through the inaccessible and sparsely populated mountainous landscape east of Sarajevo. Large parts of the gorge are still mined today; most of the settlements in the valley are badly damaged.
South of Rogatica , the Rakitnica, coming from the north, flows towards the Prača. Magistral road 19 (Sarajevo-Rogatica-Višegrad) also runs through the Prača Valley for the last 11 km . In Ustiprača the river flows into the Drina, which is dammed up here by the Višegrad dam.
traffic
The Prača Gorge forms the main transport corridor from Sarajevo to Višegrad . This was used in the past for the route of the Bosnian Eastern Railway and Magistralstrasse 5 . However, the former was shut down in the late 1970s; The second runs east of Prača on the former railway line and has not yet been developed.
