Zala (river)

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Zala
The Zala River

The Zala River

Data
location Hungary
River system Danube
Drain over Lake Balaton  → Sió Canal  → Danube  → Black Sea
source west Szalafő
46 ° 53 '8 "  N , 16 ° 17' 50"  O
Source height 320  m
muzzle near Fenekpuszta in the Balaton / Balaton Coordinates: 46 ° 42 ′ 21 ″  N , 17 ° 15 ′ 53 ″  E 46 ° 42 ′ 21 ″  N , 17 ° 15 ′ 53 ″  E
Mouth height at least  103  m  (Siófok gauge)
Height difference 217 m
Bottom slope 1.6 ‰
length 138 km
Catchment area 2622 km²
Drain MQ
 7.7 m³ / s
Medium-sized cities Zalaegerszeg , Keszthely
Small towns Őriszentpéter , Zalalövő , Bagod , Zalaszentgród , Zalakaros
Communities Zalacséb , Zalaszentgyörgy , Zalaszentiván , Zalabér , Türje , Kehidakustány , Zalaszentlászló , Zalacsány , Zalaapáti , Zalavár
Residents in the catchment area <200,000

The Zala (German: Salla ) is a river in southwest Hungary . He is the namesake for the Zala county and many places.

course

The river has its source in the Slovenian-Hungarian wooded border hill country Goričko / Őrség , one kilometer east of the Slovenian border. This hill country forms the watershed to the north running catchment area of ​​the Raab (Rába). After about 25 kilometers in an easterly direction, the river leaves Vas County near Felsőjánosfa and from there runs through Zala County . From the county town of Zalaegerszeg the direction of flow turns to the northeast. North of Zalaszentgrót , the river turns in a great arc to the south and follows the typical landscape here Riedeln of Zala hills (Zalai-dombság) to the south. After about 50 kilometers, you reach the Small Balaton (Kis-Balaton or Hídvégi-tó) near Zalavár , which in turn drains northeast through a meadow and marsh landscape near Keszthely into the western shore of Lake Balaton. Here the river forms the border with Somogy County .

Tributaries

The Foglár tributary flows south of Pakod as a northern extension of the Prinzipal Canal ( Principális-csatorna ), which connects Zala and Mur . The Felsö-Válicka brook coming from the south ( Bak ) also flows to the east (below) of this town . At Zalaszentivan the river Sárvíz flows from the left (north) (in whose upper reaches the reservoir Olimpiai-tó lies) and along which the railway line to Vasvár runs. Little east of it, below the castle Kemend flows from south of the river Szévís , followed by the railway line from Nagykanizsa. At the northernmost point of the river, the streams Széplak-patak and Nadas-patak flow from the north . In the further course further, partly nameless brooks flow from the left (east): at Kisszentgrót the Zalaszentgroti-patak , the Köszvényes-patak, as well as from the right (west) at Zalacsány the Zalacsányi-patak and the brooks Búberki-patak , Esztergalyi-patak , Bárandi-patak at Esztergályhorváti . From Szentgyörgyvár the small Zala (Kis-Zala) and the Mekenyei-árok trench run parallel to the south to the Small Balaton. From the south, the Galamboki-vízfolyás (Galambok watercourse) and the Zala-Somogyi-határárok border trench flow into the Little Balaton and the Zala .

Traffic route

The upper Zala valley is used by supra-regional railway lines as part of the TEN-T core network corridor "Mediterranean"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Opentopomap
  2. ↑ → see main article Balaton # Hydrography
  3. ↑ a b c Otto Joo: Measurements about pollution of the Zala river by Zalaegerszeg and other sources with regard to the Balaton. In: Biological Research Institute for Burgenland (Hrsg.): BFB report. No. 62, Illmitz 1987, pp. 35-45 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  4. ^ Ed. Hölzel : Upper School Atlas

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