Gurk (river)

Gurk at Truttendorf in the community Grafstein

Tight Gurk at Albeck

Gurk power plant in the municipality of Rain Poggersdorf

The Gurk (Slovene Krka) is 157 km long, the second longest after the Drava river in the Austrian federal state of Carinthia, whose land area drained it to 27%. In 2581.63 km ² large catchment area comprises 40 % of the Carinthian population.

Its origin lies in two small cirque lakes on Lattersteig in the Gurktaler Alps, east below the board level ( 2320 m above sea level. A. ). The Gurksee is 1970 meters. A. is 0.4 ha and 1.5 m deep, the Torersee is 2010 m above sea level. A. above sea level and is 0.35 ha and 1.2 m deep. Since both lakes during the winter freeze to the bottom, no fish live in them.

The Gurk flows through the sparsely populated Upper Gurktal with the Ebene Reichenau and Gnesau, cornered between the Gurk Gurk Gnesauer district ( ⊙ 46.7749814.008631 ) and Albeck, then turns east through the middle Gurktal with the place Gurk and the municipality of Strasbourg, flows through the Lower Gurk Krappfeld where they left the Metnitz and Görtschitz receives, turns at Bruckl south and then enters the Klagenfurt Basin, where she Glan receives the right, and ends in stone, 120 km long, very convoluted run, immediately before the Völkermarkter dam in the river Drava.

Your Urstrom flowed before the close Gurk into Tiebeltal why there is today with the Prekoba a very smooth transition between these two valleys.

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