Fan (river)

The Fan - Valley near Rubik

The Fan ( Albanian: Fani ) is a river in northern Albania. It is the largest tributary of the mat, with which he united 25 km from its mouth into the Adriatic Sea. The fan almost completely drained the Mirdita region - the circle Mirdita also large areas of the district of Puka and the eastern part of the district of Lezha. The 1076 km ² large catchment area is bounded on the east, north and west by that of the Drin, the largest Albanian river.

Running and landscape

Headwaters

As a fan of the river is called only for a distance of approximately 15 km upstream of the confluence with the Mat. In the city Rrëshen the two arms Fan i Madh ( Big fan ) and fan i Vogël unite (small fan ) for fan The source of the Fan i Madh is more than 50 km further north in the region of the town Fushë - Arrez. The 40 km long fan i Vogël runs further east. In this valley lies the village Orosh, before the Second World War the center of the Mirdita with castle of the local ruler and cathedral. Not far is SPAC, one of the most notorious prison camp in communist Albania.

Both main arms cross in deep valleys, the mountains of Mirdita in mostly south-westerly direction. While the car road runs to the northeast and Albania Kukes over long distances on the ridge between the two rivers, the new highway to Kosovo will be built in the far relatively undiscovered valley of the fan i Vogël.

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Middle and lower reaches

The valley of the united fan of Rrëshen down is determined by the broad, gravelly river bed. The road, the railway line and the few villages, of which the mining town of Rubik is the most important, throng the narrow flat strip between the river and mountain slope.

From Skanderbeggebirge pushed to the south, the river flows to the Mat.

Fan i Vogël at Klos

Hydrographic

The discharge flow of the fan during the year varies greatly As with most Albanian rivers. While the river in summer is almost to trickle, the wide river bed fills in winter. 1969/70 average of 220 cubic meters per second were measured at Rubik in December, in August, however, only 5.19 cubic meters per second. Sudden flood occurs again and again. In the mid-1990s and 2002, the fan is burst its banks and has caused considerable damage in the villages along the lower reaches.

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