Váh

Geobox | River
name = Váh
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image_caption = The Váh near Piešťany.
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country = Slovakia
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source = Čierny Váh
source_location = Kráľova hoľa
source_region = Low Tatras
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source1 = Biely Váh
source1_location = Važecká dolina
source1_region = High Tatras
mouth = Danube River
mouth_location = Komárno
mouth_elevation = 106.5
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length = 406
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watershed = 15075
discharge = 152
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map_background = Slovakia - background map.png map_caption = The current and watershed of the Váh from its Čierny Váh (Southern) and Biely Váh (Northern) sources until it enters the Danube (magenta)
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The Váh ( _de. Waag; ["The Cambridge Ancient History". Cambridge University Press. 1970. ISBN 0521263352] _hu. Vág; [cite book|last=Kocsis|first=Károly|title=Ethnic Geography of the Hungarian Minorities in the Carpathian|url=http://books.google.hu/books?id=-zZ_NVM9mNEC&pg=PA73&dq=Kom%C3%A1rno+Hungarians+census&sig=ACfU3U25Ug6Il7qi-T3y9yBAqQ5CaranGA|sectiontitle=Towns in Slovakia with absolute Hungarian majority|pages=73|isbn=193131375X|date=2001|accessdate=2008-07-02] [cite book|last=Felbermann|first=Louis|title=Hungary and Its People|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=zrwJAAAAIAAJ&q=V%C3%A1g+river&dq=V%C3%A1g+river&lr=lang_en&as_brr=0&hl=hu&pgis=1|accessdate=2008-07-02] _pl. WagFact|date=June 2008) is the longest river entirely in Slovakia. A left tributary of the Danube river, the Váh is 406 km long, including its Čierny Váh branch. Its two sources, the "Biely Váh" (White Váh) and the "Čierny Váh" (Black Váh), are located in the High Tatras and Low Tatra mountains, respectively, and it flows over northern and western Slovakia and finally pours into the Danube near Komárno. The left tributaries are Demänovka, Revúca, Ľubochnianka, Turiec, Rajčanka and Nitra rivers and the right tributaries are Belá, Orava, Varínka, Kysuca, Biela voda, Vlára, Dubová, Dudváh and Malý Dunaj rivers.

It includes canals, artificial dams (Čierny Váh, Liptovská Mara, Bešeňová, Krpeľany, Žilina, Hričov, Nosice, Sĺňava, Madunice, Kráľová and Selice) and 16 hydropower stations, whose construction started in the 1930s and increased after World War II. The main Slovak limited-access motorway is situated along the Váh (Bratislava - Trenčín - Považská Bystrica - Žilina and Ružomberok - Poprad), as well as the main railway Bratislava - Žilina - Košice.

Towns on the river include Liptovský Hrádok, Liptovský Mikuláš, Ružomberok, Vrútky, Žilina, Bytča, Považská Bystrica, Púchov, Ilava, Dubnica nad Váhom, Nemšová, Trenčín, Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Piešťany, Hlohovec, Sereď, Šaľa, Kolárovo and Komárno.

References

* [http://www.land.gov.sk/en/download.php?fID=19 Rural Development Programme of the SR 2007-2013]