Krka
The Krka is a river in southeastern Slovenia, a right tributary of the Sava. With a length of 94.6 km, it is the second-longest river flowing in its entirety in Slovenia, following the Savinja.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in southern Slovenia
- Also known as: “Gurk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brežice Water Tower and Brežice Youth Club.
Brežice Water Tower
Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.
The Brežice Water Tower was built in 1914, together with a city sewage system and electrification. It used to serve as the water supply for Brežice until the new water house was built below Šentvid Hill above the town.
Brežice Youth Club
Community center
Photo: Janezdrilc, CC0.
Brežice Youth Club is a community center.
Brežice Hydroelectric Power Plant
Power station
Photo: Janezdrilc, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Brežice Hydroelectric Power Plant is a power station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Čatež ob Savi and Brežice.
Čatež ob Savi
Village
Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.
Čatež ob Savi is a village on the right bank of the Sava River at its confluence with the Krka River in the Municipality of Brežice in eastern Slovenia.
Brežice
Photo: J budissin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Brežice is a town in eastern Slovenia in the Lower Sava Valley, near the Croatian border. It is the seat of the Municipality of Brežice. It lies in the center of the Brežice Plain, which is part of the larger Krka Flat.
Dvorce
Village
Photo: Janezdrilc, CC0.
Dvorce is a settlement southeast of Čatež ob Savi in the Municipality of Brežice in eastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola.
Krka
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Slovenia, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Krka” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر كركا”
- Asturian: “Ríu Krka”
- Basque: “Krka ibaia”
- Belarusian: “Крка (прыток Савы)”
- Belarusian: “Крка”
- Bulgarian: “Кърка”
- Catalan: “riu Krka”
- Catalan: “Riu Krka”
- Cebuano: “Krka”
- Chinese: “克爾卡河 (斯洛文尼亞)”
- Chinese: “克爾卡河 (斯洛維尼亞)”
- Chinese: “克爾卡河”
- Croatian: “Krka”
- Czech: “Krka”
- Danish: “Krka”
- Dutch: “Krka”
- Finnish: “Krka”
- French: “Krka”
- Galician: “Río Krka, Eslovenia”
- Galician: “Río Krka”
- German: “Krainer Gurk”
- German: “Krka”
- Greek: “Κόρκα”
- Hebrew: “קרקה”
- Irish: “Krka”
- Italian: “Krka”
- Japanese: “クルカ川”
- Ladin: “Krka”
- Latvian: “Krka (upe)”
- Latvian: “Krka”
- Lithuanian: “Krka”
- Macedonian: “Крка (Сава)”
- Macedonian: “Крка”
- Mingrelian: “კრკა (სლოვენია)”
- Mingrelian: “კრკა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Krka”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Krka i Slovenia”
- Norwegian: “Krka”
- Polish: “Krka”
- Romanian: “Krka (Sava)”
- Romanian: “Krka”
- Russian: “Крка”
- Serbian: “Krka”
- Serbian: “Крка”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Krka”
- Slovenian: “Krka”
- Slovenian: “Reka Krka”
- Spanish: “Krka”
- Spanish: “Rio Krka”
- Spanish: “Río Krka”
- Swedish: “Krka, Slovenien”
- Swedish: “Krka”
- Turkish: “Krka Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Крка”
- Upper Sorbian: “Krka”
- Venetian: “Fiume Krka”
- “Krka”
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