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The Sokobanjska Moravica or simply Moravica (Serbian Cyrillic: Сокобањска Моравица) is a river in central eastern Serbia, a 58 km-long right tributary to the Južna Morava river.

Sokobanjska Moravica
Native name	Сокобањска Моравица  (Serbian)
Location
Country	Serbia
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Devica mountain, eastern Serbia
Mouth
• location	Južna Morava at Aleksinac, Serbia
• coordinates	43°32′02″N 21°41′27″E
Length	58 km (36 mi)
Basin size	606 km2 (234 sq mi)
Basin features
Progression	South Morava→ Great Morava→ Danube→ Black Sea

Devica and Ozren mountains

The Sokobanjska Moravica originates from the eastern slopes of the Devica mountain, near the village of Skrobnica. The river flows to the north, turns westward at the village of Levovik and enters the Banja region. The rivers flows between the northern slopes of the Devica and Ozren mountains (on the south) and southern slopes of the Rtanj mountain (on the north), next to the villages of Čitluk (including a coal mine), Vrela and Blendija, reaching the town of Sokobanja, a center of Sokobanja depression and of the whole Banja region.

Bovan

After the villages of Poružnica and Trubarevac, the Sokobanjska Moravica turns south, curving between the western tip of the Ozren and southern slopes of the Bukovik mountain. At the village of Bovan, the river is dammed, as part of the complex project of the Velika Morava river regulation. Artificial Bovan lake flooded the Bovan gorge carved by the river and is very popular local and regional tourist destination, especially among campers and fishermen, but the coastline is not put in order. The river continues to the south, in an inverse flow, and after the villages of Subotinac and Kraljevo, it empties into the Južna Morava at the town of Aleksinac. The lower section used to be a coal mining area too, just like the upper one, but the mines (Aleksinački Rudnik) are closed now.

The Sokobanjska Moravica belongs to the Black Sea drainage basin, drains an area of 606 km² itself, and it is not navigable.

References

• Mala Prosvetina Enciklopedija, Third edition (1985); Prosveta; ISBN 86-07-00001-2
• Jovan Đ. Marković (1990): Enciklopedijski geografski leksikon Jugoslavije Svjetlost-Sarajevo; ISBN 86-01-02651-6

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[de] Sokobanjska Moravica

Die Sokobanjska Moravica (auch Moravica) ist ein rechter Nebenfluss der Südlichen Morava (Južna Morava) im Osten von Serbien. Sie ist 60,4 km lang und hat ein Einzugsgebiet von 625 km². Sie durchfließt die Kleinstadt Aleksinac und den bekannten serbischen Kurort Sokobanja, sowie viele Dörfer der Region. Rechte Nebenflüsse der Sokobanjska Moravica sind die Seselačka, Blendijska, Izgarska und Trgoviška Reka. Der Linke Nebenfluss ist die Gradašnica. Die Moravica füllt den künstlich angelegten Badesee Bovansko Jezero, der 12 km westlich von der Stadt Sokobanja gelegen ist. Der See wiederum liefert das Wasser für die Region um Aleksinac, Sokobanja und Knjaževac.

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