Jablanica (river)

The Jablanica (Serbian Cyrillic, pronounced [jablǎnitsa]) is an 85-kilometre-long (53 mi) river in southern Serbia. A left tributary of the South (or Južna) Morava river, it gives its name to the region of Jablanica and to modern Serbia's Jablanica District, with the region contributing about one third of the district's area. Through Južna Morava, the Jablanica belongs to the Black Sea drainage basin, draining an area of 894 km2 (345 sq mi) itself. It is not navigable and has an average discharge of 6 m3/s, which in rainy years grows much higher, so the river floods its valley, causing much material damage. The name of the river, Jablanica, in Serbian means the Poplar river. The Jablanica originates from the Goljak mountain, near the village of Grbavce, Medveđa. The area is rich in thermal springs, so several spas are located near the river: Stara Banja, Ravna Banja and Sijarina with popular Sijarinska Banja. At the village of Maćedonce (Retkocersko), the Jablanica receives the left tributary Čokotinska reka, turns southeast and the region of Jablanica begins from that point. The upper Jablanica region is made of narrow river valley on the southern slopes of the Majdan and Radan mountains, in the westernmost corner of Jablanica District and near the border of the District of Priština in Kosovo. The river flows eastward, passing regional center of Medveđa and the vill

Flows through: Serbia.

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