Rivers in Macedonia

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Rivers In Macedonia

There are large numbers of rivers in the Republic of Macedonia which present interesting tourist destinations.Among more significant ones are the rivers:

• Vardar
• Treska
• Babuna
• Crna
• Boshava
• Lepenec
• Pchinja
• Bregalnica
• Kriva Reka
• Strumica
• Crn Drim

How many rivers does Macedonia have?

Probably you have asked yourself how many rivers are there in our country. On the internet you'll meet a variety of different numbers, such as 35, 50 and 100. According to the analysis, in Macedonia there are 1600 watercourses with total length 11 650 km.

Four of them are longer than 100km: Vardar, Crna, Bregalnica and Treska (857 km all of them).

Yearly, the mass of water that leaves Macedonia from its rivers is 9 bilion cube meters.

The rivers and the basins in which they flow

The rivers in the Republic of Macedonia flow into three different basins: the Agean, the Adriatic and the Black Sea basin.

As a part of the Black Sea basin that covers the north side of Mountain Skopska Crna Gora is the river Binacka Morava which joins South Morava and later the Danube.

The rivers with their compositional valleys, which consist of picturesque ravines and valleys with open fields, create especially favorable touristic, scenic and ambient values.

Map Representation

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Aegean Basin

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Black Sea Basin

The Aegean Basin covers up 87%

of the territory of Republic Macedonia,

its surface is 20 535 km square.

the basin of river Vardar, Bregalnica, Crna Reka and river Strumica.

These rivers are characterized with flow across many valleys where they have low speed and gorges with high speed.

The Black Sea Basin covers only 44 squre km. It is represented with the river Binacka Morava that carries it's water through Morava and Danube.

Lepenec River

The Lepenec is a river in southern Kosovo and northern Macedonia, a 75 km long left tributary to the Vardar river. Lepenec belongs to the Aegean Sea drainage basin.

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Adriatic Basin

The Adriatic Basin is represented with Crn Drim River toghether wth its tributaries such as river Radika, and Ohrid and Prespa Lake. The surface is 3.350 square km, that's 13% of Republic od Macedonia.

River Pčinja

The Pčinja is a 128 km long river in Serbia and Macedonia, a left tributary of the Vardar river.

The Pčinja belongs to the Aegean sea drainage basin.

The Pčinja originates from several streams on the western slopes of the Dukat mountain.

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Vardar River

The River Vardar (388km long, 301km in Macedonia) is the largest in the Aegean basin. It rises from a beautiful spring in the village Vrutok (located at the foot of Mount Shara) and ends through the Thessaloniki area where flows into the Aegean Sea.

Bregalnica River

Vardar is the longest and most important river in Republic Macedonia. It passes through 5 valleys, 4 gorges and 3 cities.

In Macedonia it has 37 tributaries.

This river, which is the meeting point for all the rivers from the hills in Maleshevo, carries the sweet essence of this region. 225km long, Bregalnica, along its picturesque path fills Berovo Lake and Kalimanci. Bregalnica turns into a river with an abundance of fish, which only makes it more seductive for the fans of fishing, nature and green areas.

Tributaries of river Vardar

Vardar has 37 bigger tributaries.

Pena

Lepenec

Pcinja

Bregalnica

Anska Reka

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Treska

Markova Reka

Kadina Peka

Topolka

Babuna

Crna Reka

Bosava

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Treska River

A real marvel from Macedonian rivers. In its short path, Treska’s life is a wild one. Its first names were Elovechka River and and Belichka River. Shortly after that, the river was renamed into Big River, and afterwards into Great River. It got the name Treska in the village Zdunje, located in the city of Gostivar. Running through untouched mountainous areas of Porechie, the river forms very interesting landscapes.

Treska runs through the narrow canyon on top of which is located Lake Kozjak. Then, just before the entrance in the valley of Skopje, it forms the Lake Matka, where one can find the beautiful medieval Churches St. Andrej and St. Nikola Shishevski.

Strumica River

It runs through the town of Strumica and flows into the Struma river. A tribe called the Strumiani was named after this particular river.

The Strumica takes its source from the Plackovica mountain in Radovish Valley and runs through the town of Radovish. Afterwards the river runs southeastwards through the Strumica passing through the town of Strumica and turning east to enter Bulgaria south of Zlatarevo.

Radika River

River Babuna

Radika River is a pearl among the rivers of Macedonia. Radika River has pure, clear and cool water with dark green colour, which is result of the calcium carbonate in it. Radika River rises on 2200 meters above sea level on the spectacular Bistra Mountain. From its source to the mouth of the river in Debar Lake, Radika River is 67 km long.

Coming down from the spring below the peak Solunska Glava of Mount Jakupica, Babuna River is long 65 km. It has picturesque riverbed and small waterfalls, but is mostly known for being a home to a rare bird of prey called the bald eagle (also known as the white-headed eagle).

Apart from the location called "Peshti" this bird of pray cannot be found on any other place on the planet.

The valley of Radika River is one of the most attractive canyon valleys in our country. The canyon has been formed over millions of years, breaking through the mountain sides of Bistra and Stogovo in the East and Korab and Deshat in the west.

The scientists have researched over 30 caves, 10 meters long, in the upper part of the Radika River. Outstanding with its beauty is the 500 meters long "Simka" Cave.

Crna River

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The largest right tributary of the river Vardar, which is long 207 km, flows from the place Crna Dupka near the village Zeleznec, at an altitude of 760m.

Belvica, barbell, lilia, carp, catfish and other fish attract passionate fans of fishing activities, not only along the river, but also along numerous lakes, not excluding lake Tikvesh.

Crn Drim

Crn Drim flows out of Lake Ohrid at Struga at 695m altitude above sea level and leaves the country near the town Debar at 476m above sea level. Crn Drim is 56km long.

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Leaving the village Tashmarunishta the river enters a gorge and right after that it creates a lake due to the 82km tall dam located 10km to the north at the other end of the lake.

The dam forms the accumulation Globochitsa filled up by the Crn Drim.

• Marija Trajkovska
• Melanija Kraljevska

Rivers IN Macedonia