- Vlasina River
Infobox River | river_name = Vlasina (Власина)
caption = River Vlasina, location: Pukli kamen
origin =Vlasina Lake , southeasternSerbia
mouth =Južna Morava , east ofLeskovac ,Serbia
basin_countries =Serbia
length = 68 km
elevation = 1,213 m
discharge =
watershed = 1,050 km²The Vlasina (Serbian
Cyrillic : Власина), is a river in southeasternSerbia , a 68 km-long outflow of theVlasina Lake and a right tributary to the Južna Morava, which also gives its name to the surroundingVlasina region.River
The Vlasina flows out from the Vlasina Lake at an altitude of 1,213 m. Lake used to be a large, muddy
peat bog , but in 1947-51 the Vlasina was dammed by the long, earth dam and the bog was turned into an artificial lake.The river flows to the north, between the mountains of
Čemernik on the west, andGramada on the east. It flows throughCrna Trava , regional and municipal center, and the villages of Brod, Krstićevo and Jabukovik, where it reaches theLužnica mountain and receives the "Gradska reka" from the right.The river bends to the west, along the southern slopes of Lužnica, and receives from the right the "Tegošnica" (at Donje Gare village) and the "Lužnica" (at Svođe). As the Vlasina continues on the southernmost slopes of the
Suva Planina andBabička Gora mountains, it reaches the town ofVlasotince and western parts of the low Leskovac field, part of the composite valley of the Južna Morava. After the villages of Batulovce and Stajkovce, the Vlasina empties into the Južna Morava, east of theLeskovac 's eastern suburb ofMrštane .The Vlasina drains an area of 1,050 km², belongs to the
Black Sea drainage basin and it is not navigable.On
26 June 1988 , after a period of heavy rains, Vlasina was a site of catastrophic torrentfloods . The area affected by the catastrophe covered more than 1000 km², and caused a damage of around US$1 billion, despite the river flow being supposedly regulated. Subsequent analysis showed a number of flaws in the design of the protectedcatchment .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
*cite journal |last=Gavrilovic |first=Zoran |authorlink= |coauthors= Matovic, Zivorad|year=1991 |month=1 |title= Review of disastrous torrent flood on the vlasina river on June 26, 1988|journal=Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, Berlin Springer Verlag |volume=37 |issue= |pages=235–250 |id= |url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1991LNES...37..235G |accessdate=2007-07-02|doi=10.1007/BFb0011177
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