Porečka River
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| Porečka reka (Поречка река) | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Liškovac mountain, east of Majdanpek, Serbia (as Šaška} |
| Mouth | Danube, near Donji Milanovac, Serbia |
| Basin countries | Serbia |
| Length | 50 km |
| Basin area | 538 km² |
The Porečka reka (Serbian Cyrillic: Поречка река) is a river in eastern Serbia, a 50 km-long right tribtuary to the Danube in the Đerdap gorge. It originates from two headstreams, the Šaška and the Crnajka rivers which meet at the village of Markova Kula.
[edit] Origin
The Crnajka river, the shorter but natural headstream, originates from the central west slopes of the Deli Jovan mountain, and flows straight to the north, next to the villages of Tanda and Crnajka, in the valley between the Deli Jovan to the east and Veliki Krš and Mali Krš mountains to the west.
The Šaška river, the longer headstream (17 km), originates from the northern slopes of the Liškovac mountain, under the mountain's highest peak, Veliki Liškovac, east of the town of Majdanpek. The river flows to the south, curving around the whole western side of the Liškovac mountain and the northern slopes of the Mali Krš mountain, next to the oldest copper mine in Europe and once prosperous mining village of Rudna Glava, before it meets the Crnajka in the narrow valley between the southern Liškovac and northern Deli Jovan mountains, at the village of Markova Kula, forming the Porečka reka.
[edit] Poreč
For the remaining 23 km the river flows under the name of Porečka reka, diving in two the narrow valley and region of Poreč (Serbian for land alongside the river or river valley). The river continues Crnajka's straight to the north dircetion between the mountains of Liškovac (on the west) and Veliki Greben (on the east), so the agricultural and mining region is stretched in the north-south direction too.
The major settlements on the river are the villages of Klokočevac, Topolnica and Mosna, and the small town of Donji Milanovac (in medieval times also called Poreč) near the river's mouth into the Danube in the Đerdap gorge. After the construction of the Đerdap hydro electrical dam, the river actually flows into the artificial lake Đerdap, and the flooded final section of the Porečka reka today forms a small bay of the lake.
The Porečka reka drains an area of 538 km², belongs to the Black Sea drainage basin and it is not navigable.
[edit] References
- Mala Prosvetina Enciklopedija, Third edition (1985); Prosveta; ISBN 86-07-00001-2
- Jovan Đ. Marković (1990): Enciklopedijski geografski leksikon Jugoslavije; Svjetlost-Sarajevo; ISBN 86-01-02651-6
