Zasavica (river)
Zasavica (Засавица) | |
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Location | |
Country | Serbia |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Mačva, west of Bogatić |
Mouth | |
• location | Sava river, at Sremska Mitrovica, Vojvodina |
• coordinates | 44°57′40″N 19°36′15″E / 44.9612°N 19.6042°E |
Length | 34 km (21 mi) |
Basin size | 120 km2 (46 sq mi) |
Basin features | |
Progression | Sava→ Danube→ Black Sea |
The Zasavica (
Near the village of Zasavica, the river enters the marshy area of the Zasavica bog where the nominally 50–60 meter-wide stream spreads to almost 300 meters and becomes 2 meters deep. It meanders through the middle of the town until flowing into the Sava at Mačvanska Mitrovica, right across the town of Sremska Mitrovica on the Sava. The final section is channeled (Bogaz canal), and the river often floods the surrounding area.
The name of the river could be translated as the “behind Sava”. It actually flows through the typical elongated "mrtvaja" (oxbow), the old (fossil) bed of both the Sava and later, the Drina rivers. Because of the river’s meandering course and the low terrain, a bog was created, while the river itself changes the course depending on how much atmospheric waters it gets during the year.