Tara River Canyon
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The Tara River Canyon (
Geography
The park's right and left sides from the point of Crna Poda near the town of
Within Montenegro the canyon is protected as a part of
The canyon features rocky and pebbly terraces, sandy beaches, high cliffs, and more than 80 large caves.
Tara River
The
The river gets large quantities of water from abundant wellsprings and a few short tributaries. The most important left bank tributaries are the Ljutica and the Sušica, while the most important right bank tributaries are the Vaskovaćka Rijeka and the Draga. The most important wellspring is the Bajlovića Sige, located on the right bank, contributing a few hundred liters per second. The water pouring from the Bučevica Cave falls into the Tara more than thirty metres high, and more than a hundred and fifty meters wide.
The roar from the cascades can be heard from the canyon peaks. Among the more than forty cascades, the most famous are Đavolje Lazi, Sokolovina, Bijeli Kamen, Gornji Tepački Buk and Donji Tepački Buk.
Because of the quality of its water, and because of its unique ecological system, Tara in 1977 was put into the program “Čovjek i biosfera” (Human and Biosphere) and entered into the world's ecological biosphere reservations, protecting it under an international convention.
The river together with the Drina river, is Europe's main habitat and spawning ground for
Dam controversy
The governments of Montenegro and the Republika Srpska entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina had plans to flood a considerable part of the gorge, to construct one or more hydroelectric dams on the Drina and possibly the Tara. A plan to construct dams in Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Drina river, has not been abandoned.[1][2][3]
One proposed dam at Buk Bijela village, some 15 kilometers downstream of border with Montenegro and the confluence of the Tara with the
Water sports
The canyon is part of the Tara River rafting route. The one-day rafting route runs from Brstnovica to Sćepan Polje. It is 18 kilometres (11 mi) miles long. This part of the canyon has the steepest drop in elevation. It includes 21 out of 50 rapids in that part of the Tara. The rapids are Brstanovići, Pećine, Celije and Vjernovički. The longer rafting route covers 100 kilometres (62 mi). The route begins with the waterfalls of Ljutica and passes under the 541 feet high monumental bridge. Next is the old Roman road and the Lever Tara. "Funjički Bukovi" and "Bijele Ploče" rapids are followed by "Nisovo Vrelo", the deepest part of the canyon. Further is the bottom of Curevac mountain that reaches 1,650 metres (5,410 ft).
In 2005 and 2009, the European Championships in Rafting were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Vrbas and Tara rivers.43°12′32″N 19°04′40″E / 43.209°N 19.0777°E
References
- ^ Hydroelectric Power Plant BUK BIJELA
- ^ Hydroelectric Power Plant FOČA
- ^ Hydroelectric plants on Drina river
- ^ "S zakašnjenjem od godinu dana osniva se „HE Buk Bijela"". capital.ba (in Serbian). Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- ^ Power plant on the Tara