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Gaberska River

The 883rd longest river in the world

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The Gaberska reka (Bulgarian) is a river in western Bulgaria and southeastern Serbia, a left tributary of the Nišava, of the Danube basin. Its length is 36 km, of which 31 km are in Bulgaria and 5 km are in Serbia. The river takes its source at the foothills of the summit of Chekanska Buka (1, 136 m), the highest peak of the Viskyar Mountain. It then flows near the village of Pishtane and received its tributary the Ozarnovska reka near the village of Povalirazh, flowing eastwards until that point. The river then flows in northern direction until Dragotintsi, where it bends northwest and at the village of Dolna Nevlya reaches the border with Serbia and turns north. It then serves as the Bulgaria–Serbia border for some 7 km and then again turns northwest, entering Serbia entirely. In about 5 km it flows into the Nišava between the town of Dimitrovgrad and the village of Željuša at an altitude of 445 m. As the river flows through the Burel Valley, it is sometimes called the Burelska reka. Its drainage basin covers a territory of 191 km2, of which 90% are in Bulgaria and 10% are in Serbia. The Gaberska reka flows in Pernik and Sofia Provinces of Bulgaria and Pirot District of Serbia. There are nine settlements along its course, Brusnik in Pernik Province, Pishtane, Povalirazh, Dragotintsi, Gaber, Nedelishte, Nesla and Dolna Nesla in Sofia Province, as well as Lukavica

Flows through: Bulgaria.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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