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River
White Drin
Physical characteristics
Mouthwith Black Drin forms the Drin, at Kukës, Albania
Length175 km

The White Drin or Beli Drim (Albanian: Drini i Bardhë; Serbian Cyrillic: Бели Дрим) is a river in southern Serbia and northern Albania, a 175 km-long headstream of the Drin.

Metohija

The Serbian section of the White Drin flows entirely in the semi-karst Metohijan part of Kosovo, in an arc-shaped 156 km-long course. The river originates in the southern slopes of the Žljeb mountain, north of the town of Peć. The stream is originally a sinking river which eventually springs out from the strong well and falls down as a 25 m-high waterfall near the village of Radovac.

The White Drin first flows to the east, next to the spa of Pećka banja and the villages of Banjica, Trbuhovac and Zlokućane where it receives the Istočka river from the left and turns to the south. The rest of the course is through the very fertile and densely populated central section of Metohija (Podrima region), but oddly, there is not even one large settlement on the river itself, despite many smaller villages on the river. The largest cities are kilometers away from the river (Peć, Đakovica, Prizren) while some smaller towns (Klina) and large villages (Velika Kruša, Đonaj) are closer to it.

The White Drin receives many relatively long tributaries: Pećka Bistrica, Dečanska Bistrica, Prue potok, and Erenik from the right; Istočka, Klina, Miruša, Rimnik, Topluga and Prizrenska Bistrica from the left.

The Kosovar part of the White Drin basin comprises 4,360 km². Here the waters of the river are used for waterworks of the big nearby towns, irrigation and power production (especially its right tributaries). At the Vrbnica-Shalqin border crossing, the river enters the eastern Albanian region of Trektan.

Trektan

The Albanian section of the river is 19 km long with the drainage area of 604 km². There are no settlements on the river and it receives the Lumë river from the left (which also originates in Metohija, from several rivers in the Gora region). Finally, the White Drin reaches the town of Kukës where it meets the Black Drin and forms the Drin, which flows into the Adriatic Sea; thus the White Drin belongs to the Adriatic Sea drainage basin. The river is not navigable.

The entire Albanian section (and some Serbian) is flooded by the artificial Fierza lake (see Drin controversy).

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
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