Zala (river)
Zala | ||
The Zala River |
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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 |
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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 |
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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"
- Railway line Hodoš-Zalalövő
- Zalalövő – Zalaegerszeg railway line
- Zalaegerszeg – Celldömölk railway line
Individual evidence
- ↑ Opentopomap
- ↑ → see main article Balaton # Hydrography
- ↑ 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 ).
- ^ Ed. Hölzel : Upper School Atlas