Rimava
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Rimava Rima |
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 The Rimava in Rimavská Sobota |
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| Data | ||
| location | Slovakia | |
| River system | Danube | |
| Drain over | Sajó → Tisza → Danube → Black Sea | |
| source | Slovak Ore Mountains | |
| Source height | 1130 m | |
| muzzle |
Slaná coordinates: 48 ° 17 ′ 15 ″ N , 20 ° 19 ′ 12 ″ E 48 ° 17 ′ 15 ″ N , 20 ° 19 ′ 12 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | 145 m | |
| Height difference | 985 m | |
| Bottom slope | 11 ‰ | |
| length | 86 km | |
| Catchment area | 1380 km² | |
| Drain |
MQ |
7.1 m³ / s |
| Left tributaries | Blh , Teška | |
| Right tributaries | Klenovská Rimava , Rimavica , Gortva , Mačací potok | |
| Medium-sized cities | Rimavská Sobota | |
| Small towns | Tisovec , Hnúšťa | |
The Rimava (German Rimau , Hungarian Rima ) is an 88 km long river in Slovakia and a tributary of the Slaná . It rises exactly in the center of central Slovakia , south of Brezno between the approximately 1400 meter high mountains of the Slovak Ore Mountains ( Slovenské rudohorie ). The different ores of the varied colored rocks have been mined since the Middle Ages and have brought the area a certain prosperity. Today, however, many of the mines are closed.
Only about 20 km away, five other large rivers arise: the Hnilec and the Hernád (both east to the Tisza), the Waag (Slovak Váh ) and the Hron (German also Gran , whose long valleys turn west to the Danube ), and the shorter Ipeľ (German Eipel ) in a southerly direction towards Budapest .
Over the next 90 kilometers, the Rimava joins several other tributaries in the Rimavská Sobota region and is now called Slaná . The accompanying hills and mountain ranges are called Rimavská kotlina (part of the Juhoslovenská kotlina ) in Slovakia today .
The river is mentioned in the song Hochgetürnte Rimaflut , No. 2 from the Zigeunerlieder op. 103 by Johannes Brahms .
