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Jiu River
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Tributary of the Danube River in southern Romania
Key facts
- Country
- Romania
- Counties
- Hunedoara Gorj Dolj
- Cities
- Petroșani (Jiul de Est) Lupeni (Jiul de Vest) Târgu Jiu Craiova
- Source
- Confluence of headwaters Jiul de Vest and Jiul de Est , near Petroșani , Hunedoara
- Coordinates
- 45°22′07″N 23°22′04″E / 45.36861°N 23.36778°E / 45.36861; 23.36778
- Elevation
- 554 m (1,818 ft)
- Mouth
- Danube
- Location
- near Bechet , Dolj
- Length
- 340 km (210 mi)
- Basin size
- 10,080 km (3,890 sq mi)
- Maximum
- 120 m (393 ft) ( Craiova )
- Average
- 86 m /s (3,000 cu ft/s)
- Progression
- Danube → Black Sea
- Left
- Jiul de Est , Gilort , Amaradia
- Right
- Jiul de Vest , Motru
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Jiu ( Romanian: [ʒiw] ; Hungarian: Zsil [ʒil]; German: Schil or Schiel; Latin: Rabon) is a river in southern Romania. It is formed near Petroșani by the confluence of headwaters Jiul de Vest and Jiul de Est.
It flows southward through the Romanian counties Hunedoara, Gorj, and Dolj before flowing into the Danube near Zăval, a few kilometers upstream from the Bulgarian city of Oryahovo. It is 339 kilometres (211 mi) long, including its source river, Jiul de Vest. It has a basin of 10,430 km (4,030 sq mi). Its average discharge at the mouth is 97 m/s (3,400 cu ft/s).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jiu River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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