Drina

Drina ( Serb. Drina , Bosn. Drina ) is a river on the border of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia . Right tributary of the Sava ( Black Sea basin).

Drina
Serb. Drina , Bosn. Drina
View of Drina in the area of Mali Zvornik
Characteristic
Length	346 km
Swimming pool	19 570 km²
Water consumption	370 m³ / s
Watercourse
Source(T) (B)	river confluence: Tara and Beer
• Height	1222 m
• Coordinates
Mouth (T) (B)	Sava
• Location	Machwan District , Serbia
• Coordinates
Location
Water system	Sava → Danube → Black Sea
Countries	Serbia Bosnia and Herzegovina
source mouth

From the confluence of the two rivers forming it to the mouth, the length of the Drina is 346 km. The average water flow rate is 370 m³ / s. The height of the source is 1222 m above sea level. Because of its greenish waters, Serbs often call it "green." In the upper reaches, Drina winds serpentine through gorges and narrow mountain valleys, due to which it is considered ^{[by whom? ]} one of the most picturesque rivers in the Balkans .

Sava River Basin

Two rivers, the sources of Drina, Tara and Piva flow along northwestern Montenegro , their place of confluence near the town of Hum in Bosnia and Herzegovina is considered the beginning of Drina. From there it flows not far from the Serbian-Montenegrin, then - along the Serbian-Bosnian borders to Sava, which flows into Bosanska Raci . The major settlements on Drina in Bosnia and Herzegovina are Foca , Gorazde , Visegrad and Zvornik , in Serbia - Bayina Bashta and Loznitsa . Drina is the largest tributary of the Sava.

Visegrád Bridge across Drina is a World Heritage Site.

Historically, Drina has long been a natural border between the Western Roman and Eastern Roman empires , and subsequently also became the border between the Orthodox and Catholic worlds. In combination with Islam , planted during the Ottoman yoke, this past to this day determines the position and life of people along the banks of the Drina. For many centuries there has been a multinational and confessional population, but often their coexistence was also marked by military conflicts. During World War I, several bloody battles broke out on the Drina between the Austro-Hungarian and Serbian armies.

In 1989, a dam was built near Visegrad , which formed a reservoir with a capacity of 101 million m³, a hydroelectric power station with a capacity of 315 MW is operating. Between Visegrad and Perucat in 1966, a river, blocked by another dam, forms the Perucat reservoir with a capacity of 340 million m³. The dam height at the village of Perucac is 93 meters, the hydroelectric power station and hydroelectric power station operates with a turbine capacity of 614 MW and a pumping station of 249 MW and also includes the Beli Rzhav high-mountain reservoir (600 meters above). Downstream of the river is the Zvornitsky reservoir with a capacity of 89 million m³, whose dam is located at the town of Zvornik , and the dam power station has a capacity of 92 MW. The total annual output of power plants on the river exceeds 2.5 billion kWh .

With his work “A Bridge Across Drina ”, the Yugoslav writer Ivo Andrich created a literary monument to his river Visegrad and his country, for which he became a Nobel Prize in Literature .

Also known is the Serbian folk song “Water in Drin flows cold, and the blood of the Serbs is hot.”

In the area of ​​the Bayina-Bashta town, right in the middle of the river, a house was built on a small rock ( ), which became known as a tourist attraction ^{[1 ]} .