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Buna (Adriatic Sea)
River in Albania and Montenegro / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the river in Albania and Montenegro. For the river in Bosnia and Herzegovina, see Buna (Neretva). For other uses, see Bojana (disambiguation) and Buna (disambiguation).
The Buna (Albanian: Bunë)[3] river, also known as Bojana (Cyrillic: Бојана), is a 41-kilometre-long (25 mi) river in Albania and Montenegro which flows into the Adriatic Sea. An outflow of Lake Skadar measured from the source of the lake's longest tributary, the Morača, the Morača-Shkodra Lake-Bojana system is 183 km (114 mi) long.
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Buna Bojana | |
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![]() Buna River near Shkodër | |
Native name |
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Location | |
Countries | Albania and Montenegro |
County | Shkodër (Albania) |
Municipality | Shkodër (Albania) Ulcinj (Montenegro) |
City | Shkodër (Albania) |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Lake Skadar |
Mouth | Adriatic Sea |
• coordinates | 41°50′50″N 19°22′18″E |
Length | 41 km (25 mi) |
Basin size | 19,582[1] km2 (7,561 sq mi) |
Discharge | |
• average | 672[1] m3/s (23,700 cu ft/s) |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | |
• left | Great Drin |
Designation | |
Official name | Lake Shkodra and River Buna |
Designated | 2 February 2006 |
Reference no. | 1598[2] |
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