The Sava (German: Save; Serbian Cyrillic: Сава; Hungarian: Száva) is a river in Central and Southeast Europe, a right tributary of Danube at Belgrade. It flows through Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.
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Sava
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 Map of the Sava watershed |
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| Source | Zelenci |
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| - location | Kranjska Gora, Slovenia |
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| - coordinates | 46°29′31″N 13°44′16″E |
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| - elevation | 833 m (2,733 ft) |
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| Mouth | Danube |
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| - location | Belgrade, Serbia |
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| - coordinates | 44°49′27″N 20°26′38″E |
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| - elevation | 68 m (223 ft) |
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| Length | 992 km (616 mi)[1] a |
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| Basin size | 97,713.2 km2 (37,727.3 sq mi)[1] |
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| - location | the river mouth |
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| - average | 1,609 m3/s (56,800 cu ft/s) |
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| Progression | Danube→ Black Sea |
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| - left | Savinja, Sutla, Krapina, Lonja, Ilova-Trebež, Orljava, Bosut, Jarcina |
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| - right | Sora, Ljubljanica, Krka, Kupa, Una, Vrbas, Ukrina, Bosna, Tolisa, Tinja, Drina, Kolubara |
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| a Including 45 km (28 mi) Sava Dolinka headwater |
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