Key facts
- Country
- Slovakia
- Source
- Orava reservoir , taking water from White Orava in Slovakia and from Black Orava in Poland
- Location
- Orava , Slovakia
- Coordinates
- 49°23′N 19°33′E / 49.383°N 19.550°E / 49.383; 19.550
- Elevation
- 601 m (1,972 ft)
- Mouth
- Váh river
- Length
- 62.0 km (38.5 mi)
- Basin size
- 1,991.8 km (769.0 sq mi)
- Average
- 34.5 m /s (1,220 cu ft/s)
- Minimum
- 2.3 m /s (81 cu ft/s)
- Maximum
- 1,120 m /s (40,000 cu ft/s)
- Progression
- ‹See Tfd› Váh → ‹See Tfd› Danube → Black Sea
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Slovakia
- Located in
- Tvrdošín District
- Continent
- Europe
- Image
- OravaRiver.jpg
- Length
- 60.3
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- basin country
- Slovakia
- Commons category
- Orava River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Váh
- watershed area
- 1991.8
- discharge
- 345
- origin of the watercourse
- Oravská Magura
- different from
- Orava
- native label
- Orava
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Encyclopedic overview
The Orava (Hungarian: Árva) is a river in north-western Slovakia passing through a picturesque country, in the Orava county. Its source is nowadays the Orava water reservoir whose waters flooded the confluence of Biela (White) Orava and Čierna (Black) Orava in 1953. It flows into the river Váh near the village of Kraľovany. It is 62.0 km (38.5 mi) long and its basin size is 1,192 km (460 sq mi).
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Orava” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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