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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 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 ...
The only other river that has higher drainage volume is the Danube which running through Central Europe within Ukraine stretches only for 174 km (108 mi). The average annual drainage of the Danube is around 123 km 3 (30 cu mi). The deepest river of Ukraine is Dniester.
The Danube runs through several countries, and in Hungary is known as the Hungarian: Duna. ... The Danube is the second longest river in Europe, after the Volga.
Basin of the River Danube (> 1000 km 2, only the area in Hungary) ... Balaton from (Zala river and others) – 5,181 km² Rivers by average discharge
The entire basin is drained by only one river, the Danube, which flows into the Black Sea. All major rivers in Serbia, like Tisa , Sava , Velika Morava and Drina belong to it. The Adriatic Sea drainage basin covers an area of 4,500 km 2 or 5% of territory of Serbia.
The border of Europe and Asia is here defined as from the Kara Sea, along the Ural Mountains and Ural River to the Caspian Sea.While the crest of the Caucasus Mountains is the geographical border with Asia in the south, Georgia, and to a lesser extent Armenia and Azerbaijan, are politically and culturally often associated with Europe; rivers in these countries are therefore included.
As a right tributary of the Danube, the river belongs to the Black Sea drainage basin. [19] [20] The Sava River is the third longest tributary of the Danube, [21] slightly shorter than the 966-kilometre (600 mi) Tisza and the 950-kilometre (590 mi) Prut—the Danube's two longest tributaries—when the Sava Dolinka headwater is excluded from ...