Rakitnica (Prača)
| Rakitnica | ||
 Waterfall at the mouth of the Bereg brook in the Rakitnica north of Rogatica |
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| Data | ||
| location | Bosnia and Herzegovina , Rogatica municipality | |
| River system | Drina | |
| Drain over | Prača → Drina → Save → Danube → Black Sea | |
| source | below Šenkovići, municipality of Sokolac 43 ° 54 ′ 17 ″ N , 19 ° 4 ′ 10 ″ E |
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| Source height | 760 m | |
| muzzle | In the lower Prača south of Rogatica coordinates: 43 ° 44 ′ 54 " N , 19 ° 0 ′ 11" E 43 ° 44 ′ 54 " N , 19 ° 0 ′ 11" E |
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| Mouth height | 460 m | |
| Height difference | 300 m | |
| Bottom slope | 13 ‰ | |
| length | 23 km | |
| Catchment area | 302 km² | |
| Navigable | No | |
The Rakitnica ( Serbian - Cyrillic Ракитница ) is a left tributary of the Prača in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina .
The river rises from a valley wall directly below the village of Šenkovići in the municipality of Sokolac . The source is 760 m above sea level, the confluence with the Prača near Rogatica is 300 m below at 460 m. The river is about 23 km long and has several waterfalls and rapids in its course. In the upper reaches the river runs essentially from northwest to southeast, in the lower reaches almost exactly south. In the lower reaches the river has formed a gorge through which the M19.3 main road leads from Rogatica to the Drina valley.
Melting snow and heavy rainfall mean that the river carries the most water from February to May and the least from June to December. In 1878 and 1937 there were floods that caused great damage in Rogatica.
The course of the river through Rogatica was regulated from 1968 to 1974 and a public bathing area was set up. This was expanded in 2012. In 2013, the government of the Republic of Srpska approved the construction of two small hydropower plants. These plans are controversial as it is feared that the drinking water supply of the surrounding communities will suffer and that ecologically harmful consequences for the flora and fauna will be inevitable.
At the Berlin Congress in 1878 Austria-Hungary was granted the right to occupy Ottoman Bosnia-Herzegovina. Hadschi Loja , one of the leaders of the resistance fighters during the Austrian occupation campaign , was seriously wounded and captured by Austro-Hungarian troops near Rogatica in the Rakitnica Valley on October 3, 1878.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Rijeka Rakitnica (Pritoka Prače) , Mirsad Durmišević , January 21, 2011, accessed July 17, 2020
- ↑ Will the Rakitnica waterfalls get trapped by pipes? , June 16, 2019, accessed July 17, 2020
- ↑ Bosnian sketchbook , p. 84, Milena Preindlsberger-Mrazovic , Dresden 1900, accessed July 17, 2020
