Mostonga

Mostonga
Native name	Мостонга (Serbian)
Location
Country	Serbia
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Sombor, Vojvodina, Serbia
Mouth
• location	Danube, at Mladenovo, Vojvodina, Serbia
Length	70 km (43 mi) (formerly 92 km or 57 mi)

The Mostonga (

The Mostonga originates from the marshy bogs north of the town of Sombor in northwestern Vojvodina, near the Nenadići hamlet. It flows south (parallel to the Danube, the general direction of its whole course) and passes through the western outskirts of Sombor after which it is channeled for the first time, as a part of the Great Bačka Canal.

Danube-Tisa-Danube Canal

The river continues south at the hamlet of

Middle Course

Odžaci

Northwest of the town of Odžaci the Mostonga separates from the Danube-Tisa-Danube canal, but remains channeled itself. In this section the river makes a large bend (which begins already at Srpski Miletić and ends at Karavukovo), on a half of which it separates from the DTD.

Bački Petrovac-Karavukovo Canal

At this section, the Mostonga is directly connected by another canal to the Danube, beginning at the village of Karavukovo.

Also, after Karavukovo it becomes part of the Bački Petrovac-Karavukovo canal, and as such passes next to the village of Deronje and small town of Bač, where the Mostonga separates from other canals once more.

Final section

The Mostonga still continues to the south, splitting in two arms and creating a small delta on its confluence with the Danube. The river enters the marshy terrain after the village of

The Mostonga belongs to the Black Sea drainage basin.

References

• Jovan Đ. Marković (1990): Enciklopedijski geografski leksikon Jugoslavije; Svjetlost-Sarajevo;
  ISBN 86-01-02651-6