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The course and catchment area of ​​the Waag in Slovakia

The course and catchment area of ​​the Waag in Slovakia

Data
location Slovakia
River system Danube
Drain over Danube  → Black Sea
source Low Tatras
49 ° 1 ′ 8 ″  N , 19 ° 48 ′ 33 ″  E
Source height 664  m nm
muzzle At Komárno in the Danube Coordinates: 47 ° 44 ′ 59 ″  N , 18 ° 8 ′ 51 ″  E 47 ° 44 ′ 59 ″  N , 18 ° 8 ′ 51 ″  E
Mouth height 106  m nm
Height difference 558 m
Bottom slope 1.4 ‰
length 403 km
Catchment area 19,696 km²
Drain MQ
152 m³ / s
Left tributaries Boca , Revúca , Turiec , Teplička , Rajčianka , Nitra
Right tributaries Belá , Orava , Varínka , Kysuca , Papradnianka , Vlára , Dudváh , Little Danube
Reservoirs flowed through Liptov reservoir , Bešeňová reservoir, Krpeľany reservoir, Žilina reservoir, Hričov reservoir, Nosice reservoir, Sĺňava reservoir, Kráľová reservoir
Navigable partially
The Waag at Piešťany

The Waag at Piešťany

The Waag (Slovak Váh , Hungarian Vág , Polish Wag ) is the longest river in Slovakia and after Danube and Tisza the longest river in the Carpathian Basin with a length of 403 km (other counting 378 km). It rises near the center of Slovakia in the Low and High Tatras , alternates between broad plains and narrow breakthrough valleys , circles the high mountain ranges of Slovakia in a large semicircle and flows into the Danube at Komárno (east of Bratislava ) (river kilometer 1766).

Surname

The name of the Waag is said to be derived from the Latin word vagus (wandering, wanderlust), as the river often changed its course.

Course and catchment area

The Vah is formed in the community kráľova lehota (at Liptovský Hrádok ) by the confluence of from Tatras coming White Vah (source region 49 ° 8 '58'  N , 20 ° 0 '21 "  O ) and from the Low Tatras flowing Black Waag (headwaters 48 ° 53 ′ 23 ″  N , 20 ° 8 ′ 10 ″  E ). It then flows westwards through the Lower Tatras Basin, past the town of Liptovský Mikuláš and through the large Liptov reservoir before reaching the old Ružomberok (UNESCO World Heritage Site Vlkolínec ).

In the breakthrough valley in the Great Fatra , the Waag at Kraľovany receives its first large tributary, the right bank Orava . In the following landscape of Turz it takes up the left tributary Turiec near the industrial cities Martin and Vrútky . After another breakthrough through the Little Fatra near Strečno , it reaches the regional capital Žilina ; here the stream takes in the rivers Kysuca and Rajčianka .

From here the river turns in a south-westerly direction and runs parallel to the border with Moravia . In the town of Považská Bystrica , the Waag enters another industrial region that includes the towns of Púchov , Dubnica nad Váhom and Nová Dubnica up to the regional capital Trenčín with its castle . At Nemšová the Vlára flows out on the right . Further downstream, the Váh enters the great Danube lowlands at Nové Mesto nad Váhom and flows south from this point. The Waag then passes the health resort Piešťany , the prison town Leopoldov and Hlohovec and passes about 15 km east of the old university town Trnava . From around Sereď it flows in the mostly Hungarian-speaking Danube plain through the cities of Šaľa and Kolárovo (mouth of the Little Danube or Waag-Danube and the Nitra ) before it joins the main stream at Komárno .

The 19,696 km² catchment area of ​​the Waag includes seven Kraje and forty Okresy in Slovakia. About two fifths of the Slovak population live in this area. The Waag with its tributaries completely drains the Žilinský kraj , almost the entire Trenčiansky kraj (without the areas around Myjava in the west and the village Nová Lehota in the southeast), about two thirds of the Trnavský kraj (between the Little Carpathians and half of the Big Bulky Island ) and the western half of Nitriansky kraj (except for an area in the southwest). The catchment area also covers around 40% of the Bratislavský kraj , small areas in the west of the Prešovský kraj ( Okres Poprad ) and very small parts of the Banskobystrický kraj (north of Kremnica and around the place Donovaly ). In addition, smaller areas in Poland (west of Nowy Targ ) and the Czech Republic (near Mosty u Jablunkova , the river Vlára and the municipalities of Strání and Březová ) belong to the catchment area.

regulation

Regulatory plans had existed for centuries, but were not implemented until 1890 . The weirs and reservoirs in Waagtal take flood protection , agriculture, shipping and energy generation into account . Today about 60 to 80 percent of the length of the Waag and Nitra rivers are regulated. This system, known today as the Waag Cascade ( Vážska kaskáda ), includes 22 hydropower plants and the following reservoirs:

Domašín meander between Martin and Žilina

In total, almost half of the Slovak water flow is generated in hydropower plants on the Waag and its tributaries (especially the Orava). In addition, the Bohunice nuclear power plant uses the water from the river for cooling.

tourism

Today you can experience the historic rafting as a tourist attraction on the upper reaches of the Waag. There are many private providers of raft trips on the Waag between the large Liptov reservoir and Žilina .

traffic

Since the Waag flows through half of Slovakia , it was an important waterway early on . In the lower reaches , the 74 km long stretch from the mouth to Sereď is navigable, but the rapid upper reaches was also used for wooden rafting . There are plans to make the Waag navigable as far as Žilina as part of the European waterway E81 in order to connect the river with the Oder together with the Kysuca and various canals .

The wider Waag Valley plays a major role in west-east traffic within Slovakia. In rail traffic, parts of the electrified, double-track main lines Bratislava – Žilina and Žilina – Košice , which connect the two major Slovak cities of Bratislava and Košice , run through the Waag Valley. The old state roads will be replaced by the main D1 motorway ; In 2013 the route from Žilina to behind Ružomberok was still missing.

See also

literature

  • Klement Trockner, Christopher T. Robinson, Urs Uehlinger: Rivers of Europe . Academic Press, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-12-369449-2 , 3.9.3. Váh River, S. 88-90 (English).

Web links

Commons : Waag  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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