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The Danube River Basin is divided into three main parts, separated by "gates" where the river is forced to cut through mountainous sections: [24] Upper Basin, from the headwaters to the Devín Gate. Middle Basin, usually called the Pannonian basin or Carpathian Basin, between the Devín Gate and the Iron Gates.
Map of the Danube and the major cities it passes through. This is a list of the cities and towns located on Danube river. This list does not include parts of cities, suburbs, neighbourhoods, etc. Any city or town which is located on the bank of Danube river can be included in this list. The cities and towns on Danube river could be sorted by ...
Map of most important tributaries of the Danube. This is a list of tributaries of the Danube by order of entrance.. The Danube is Europe's second-longest river.It starts in the Black Forest in Germany as two smaller rivers—the Brigach and the Breg—which join at Donaueschingen, and it is from here that it is known as the Danube, flowing generally eastwards for a distance of some 2,850 km ...
Europe's worst drought in years has pushed the mighty river Danube to one of its lowest levels in almost a century, exposing the hulks of dozens of explosives-laden German warships sunk during ...
The Danube river, emanating from the Abnoba mountains, was considered to be a river or spring goddess. In contrast to the more mythical role, the hydrological significance of the source of the Danube is notably small; this is because a significant portion of the Danube's headwater is channelled into the Rhine , both above and below Tuttlingen ...
The Danube Delta (Romanian: Delta Dunării, pronounced [ˈdelta ˈdunərij] ⓘ; Ukrainian: Дельта Дунаю, romanized: Del'ta Dunaju, pronounced [delʲˈtɑ dʊnɐˈju]) is the second largest river delta in Europe, after the Volga Delta, and is the best preserved on the continent. [2]
Danube Delta full map with its distributaries identified The Sulina branch is a distributary of the river Danube that contributes to forming the Danube Delta . The other two main branches of the Danube are the Chilia branch to the north and the Sfântu Gheorghe branch to the south. [ 1 ]
It is located about 100 metres south-east of the Rhine / Danube watershed (the great European Watershed). Beyond that, but only about 900 metres away is the source of the Elz , which flows in the same longitudinal valley but initially in the opposite direction, to the north, and later flows into the Rhine .