Svitava (river)
| Svitava | ||
 Svitava between Bílovice and Brno |
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| Data | ||
| location | Czech Republic | |
| River system | Danube | |
| Drain over | Svratka → Thaya → March → Danube → Black Sea | |
| source | 3 km northwest of Svitavy 49 ° 47 ′ 19 ″ N , 16 ° 26 ′ 10 ″ E |
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| Source height | 453 m nm | |
| muzzle | near Brünn -Přízřenice in Svratka coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 32 " N , 16 ° 37 ′ 41" E 49 ° 8 ′ 32 " N , 16 ° 37 ′ 41" E
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| length | 97 km | |
| Catchment area | 1150 km² | |
| Drain |
MQ |
5.22 m³ / s |
| Left tributaries | Punkva | |
| Right tributaries | Křetínka | |
| Big cities | Brno | |
The Svitava ( German Zwitta , also Zwittawa ) is a left tributary of the Svratka in the Czech Republic .
It rises three kilometers northwest of Svitavy in the Zwittau hill country ( Svitavská pahorkatina ) at 453 m above sea level. NN near the village of Javorník and formed a natural border between Bohemia and Moravia on its upper reaches .
At its run to the southeast are the places Svitavy , Lány , Hradec nad Svitavou , Březová nad Svitavou , Brněnec , Rozhraní , Letovice , Svitávka , Mladkov u Boskovic, Skalice nad Svitavou , Lhota Rapotina , Doubravice nad Svitavou , Rájec-Jestřebí , Ráječko and Blansko , where she makes her way through the Drahaner Bergland . East of the Svitava there is the landscape of the Moravian Karst .
Other places on the river are Adamov u Brna , Bílovice nad Svitavou and Brno . On the southern outskirts of Brno, the Svitava flows into the Svratka after 97 km at Přízřenice.
The Svitava has a catchment area of 1150 km². In 1997 the Svitava caused an extreme flood, floods of minor extent occur again and again, the last one was in 2006.
Tributaries
- Křetínka (r) in Letovice
- Úmoří (r) in Skalice nad Svitavou
- Bělá (l) at Lhota Rapotina
- Býkovka (r) in Rájec-Jestřebí
- Punkva (l) at Blansko
- Křtinský potok in Adamov u Brna
- Ponávka in Brno
