Uvac

Infobox River | river_name = Uvac


image_size = 180px
caption = Drainage basin of Drina in Serbia
origin = Ninaja mountain, Pešter plateau
mouth = Lim river, near Priboj
basin_countries = Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
length = convert|119|km|mi|0|lk=on|abbr=on
elevation =
discharge = 18 m³/s
watershed = convert|1310|km2|sqmi|0|lk=on|abbr=on The Uvac (Serbian Cyrillic: Увац) is the river in southwestern Serbia and Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 119 km long right and major tributary of the Lim, loosely making the northern border of the Sandžak/Raška region. Before it empties into the Lim, for a 10 kilometers it forms the border between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Upper course

The Uvac originates in the Pešter plateau from the Ninaja mountain, as "Rasanska reka" (Cyrillic: "Расанска река"). The stream curves around the Ninaja and Pometenik mountains, next to the villages of Tuzinje, Rasno, Dragojloviće and Gradac, where it meets "Brnjička reka" (Cyrillic: "Брњичка река"), enters the Sjenica depression and continues on depression eastern border as the "Vapa" (Cyrillic: "Вапа"), which is 25 kilometers long and drains an area of 496 km².

The river passes next to the villages of Gornja Vapa, Donja Vapa, Čedovo and Krstac, where the Vapa receives from the left the short river Uvac, which originates on the Ozren mountain, and gives name to the downstream course of the river.

Lower course

The Uvac continues to the northwest, enters the Stari Vlah region where it flows in a deep, canyon-like valley, where it receives the "Kladnica" river from the right and generates lots of power, which is used for three powerful hydroelectric power stations, each one with big artificial lake: "Bistrica" with Lake Radoinja, "Kokin Brod" with Lake Zlatar (7,3 km², altitude 400 m, depth 40 m) and "Sjenica" with Lake Sjenica.

In the lowest part of its course, The Uvac flows between the Zlatar and Zlatibor mountains, next to the villages of Kokin Brod and Radoinja until it reaches the Bosnian border and Varda mountain, makes a sharp, elbow turn to the south and after a short flow next to the villages of Bjelušine and Uvac (both on Bosnian side), the Uvac empties into the Lim, north of the city of Priboj.

The Uvac drains an area of 1,310 km², belongs to the Black Sea drainage basin, and its not navigable. Its average discharge at the mouth is 18 m³/s.

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

External links

* [http://www.uvac.org.rs/ Uvac Special Nature Reserve]