Orava River

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Orava
Hungarian: Árva, German: Arwa, Polish: Orawa
 Orava River at Dolný Kubín, showing houses of Záskalie neighborhood
Orava River at Dolný Kubín, showing houses of Záskalie neighborhood
Country Slovakia
Length 60.9 km (38 mi)
Watershed 1,991.8 km² (769 mi²)
Discharge mouth
 - average 34.5 /s (1,218 ft³/s)
 - maximum 1,120 /s (39,552 ft³/s) 1120
 - minimum 2.3 /s (81 ft³/s) 2.3
Source Orava reservoir, taking water from White Orava in Slovakia and from Black Orava in Poland
 - coordinates 49°23′N 19°33′E
 - elevation 601 m (1,972 ft)
Mouth Váh river
 - location Kraľovany
 - coordinates 49°09′N 19°09′E
 - elevation 430.7 m (1,413 ft)

Orava (49°09′N 19°09′E) is the name of a 60.9 km long river in north-western Slovakia passing through a picturesque country, in the Orava county. Its source is nowadays the Orava water reservoir whose waters flooded the confluence of Biela (White) Orava and Čierna (Black) Orava in 1953. It flows into the river Váh near the village of Kraľovany.

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