Latorica
Sign in to saveLatorica (; ; ) is a river in the watershed of the Danube. Its source is in the Ukrainian Carpathians (Eastern Carpathian Mountains), near the village . It flows from Ukraine (156.6 km) to Slovakia (31.4 km), 188 km in total and west through the towns of Svaliava, Mukachevo, Solomonovo, Chop and Veľké Kapušany. Its basin size is . Its confluence with the Ondava, in Zemplín, gives rise to the Bodrog river, itself a tributary of the Tisza.
Key facts
- River.name
- Latorica
- River.image
- Mukačewo – Latorica 3.jpg
- River.image_caption
- Latorica river in Mukachevo
- River.mapframe
- yes
- River.mapframe zoom
- 7
- River.mouth_location
- Bodrog
- River.tributaries_right
- Laborec
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Ukraine, Slovakia
- River.length_km
- 188
- River.source1
- Wooded Carpathians
- River.source1_location
- Ukraine
- River.discharge1_avg
- in Chop
- River.basin_size_km2
- 7740
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Ukraine
- Located in
- Michalovce District
- Image
- Латориця.jpg
- Length
- 182
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- topic's main category
- Category:Latorica
- mouth of the watercourse
- Bodrog
- category for the water basin
- Category:Latorica
- tributary
- Matekova
- watershed area
- 3130
- origin of the watercourse
- Carpathians
- discharge
- 37.0
- basin country
- Ukraine
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Ukraine
- Commons category
- Latorica
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- References
- External links
Latorica (; ; ) is a river in the watershed of the Danube. Its source is in the Ukrainian Carpathians (Eastern Carpathian Mountains), near the village . It flows from Ukraine (156.6 km) to Slovakia (31.4 km), 188 km in total and west through the towns of Svaliava, Mukachevo, Solomonovo, Chop and Veľké Kapušany. Its basin size is . Its confluence with the Ondava, in Zemplín, gives rise to the Bodrog river, itself a tributary of the Tisza.
A part of its watershed (Latorica Protected Landscape Area, "Ramsar site No. 606", ) has been added to the Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance since 1993.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Latorica” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
4 mapped locations