Ampoi River

The Ampoi in Romania

The lower reaches of the Ampoi ( Ompoy Bach), in the Josephine land survey of 1769-1773

The Ampoi or Ompoi (Hungarian Ompoly ) is a right tributary of the Mureş ( Maros ) in the southwest of the Transylvanian Basin in Romania.

The river is also known under the outdated names Ampeie and Ampee.

River course

The Ampoi rises in the northeast of the Transylvanian Ore Mountains - a mountain range of the Apuseni Mountains -, southwest of Petriceaua Summit, west of Alba County ( ⊙ 46.2036323.09897 1142 m asl. ). In the upper reaches, between the Transylvanian Erzgebirge (in the west ) and the Trascău Mountains (to the east ), the Ampoi flows in the field of small-town Zlatna ( Small Schlatten ) over a length of about 26 km to the southeast. South of the mountains of the Trascăuer Ampoi predominantly flows in an easterly direction and flows Barabant - a eingemeindeten village of the town of Alba Iulia - night about 60 kilometers to the Mureş. The river has a catchment area of ​​about 580 km ².

Places along the Ampoi

The Ampoi flows through, among other places Zlatna, Sard ( Kothmarkt ) Metes ( Meteschdorf ) Micesti (small Dörfel ), Alba Iulia ( Charles Castle ).

Along the Ampoi leads the National Road ( Drum National) DN74 and the railway Alba Iulia Zlatna.