Lištica River

Borak, the source of Listica in Široki Brijeg

The Listica [ liʃtit͡sa ] is a river in Herzegovina, in the southwest of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the zweitkälteste river in Europe.

Run

After emerging from a first source in Čabulja Mountains is called the flux in the upper reaches Jasenica, decreases the merger with a second actual source ( field name: Borak ) in Široki Brijeg the name Listica on to after the disappearance in a weep hole (in Croatian: ponor ) in the former swamp Mostarsko Blato, an underground running and recurrence in Mostar, in turn to take the name Jasenica and to flow into the Neretva.

The Listica has the following original natural course:

" The Listica [sic ] originates at Čabuljagebirge, is in the vicinity of the monastery Siroki Brieg by a second source, the entquillt a pit of the mountain Černać, nourished, flows first south, then east, passing through the swamp Mostarski - Blato in a length of 2 ½ hours, and disappears west below the level of connection of the Hum and the Nemačko Brdo Mostar. In Milković the river enters the plain of Mostar, takes the name Jassenica, flows in a southeasterly direction and empties almost 40 paces wide, near Buna in the Narenta. It is bridged at Siroki Brieg and at Buna. She takes on the left: the Černastica and Svatić, right:. Coming from Gvozd Ugrovača and the coming of Vrannić Brazovać "

Economy

In 1868 the Franciscans built the monastery of Široki Brijeg, at the Listica a water mill, and in 1934 a small hydroelectric power plant, which was first supplied the city with electricity. In February 1945, the watermill of the crime scenes of the massacre of Široki Brijeg was.

Due to the low groundwater level and the lack of expansion of the water system, private cisterns surrounding villages with the water of Listica be supplied today. But the water is bottled at the source in tankers and transported to the customer to be used as drinking water.

Others

The city Široki Brijeg in 1953 renamed after the river in Listica, so that the name Široki Brijeg not remember the temporary defeat and the high losses of the Tito partisans in the battle for the city and region at the end of World War II and the local massacre could. After the end of Yugoslavia, the city received in 1991 back to its original name.