Otava (river)

The Otava

The Otava River ( German Wottawa, formerly Wattawa ) is produced in the Bohemian Forest in the Czech Republic at the confluence of the mountain streams Křemelná and Vydra. It usually flows in a northeasterly direction through the towns Sušice, Horažďovice, Strakonice and Pisek and empties into the Orlik Dam near the Zvíkov in the Vltava River.

The upper course of the river from Čeňkova Pila to Rejštejn is fast, with many rapids, boulders and irregular sleepers in the river bed. The Otava valley is narrow and wooded. In the course of the river at Sušice calmed the flow rate and the Otava takes today to Orlik dam on the character of a quiet river.

In his last 22 kilometers to the delta at Zvíkov the river is dammed in the Orlik dam. In the Flusschleifen below the mouth of the Lomnice Otava made ​​to the dam more rapids and shoals, of which the ravening Anne Power ( Anenské proudy ) around the rocky spur of Svatá Anna as special Dern was dangerous.

Due to the arisen since the end of the 19th century interest of the population to the historical sites of the area, the club had československých turistů in honor of August Sedlacek in the years 1924-1928 between the Zvíkov and Pisek in the lower reaches of the River the 25 km long Sedlacek riser ( Sedláčkova stezka ) for support. The lower section of the walkway between Štědronín and Zvíkov was at the beginning of the 1960s, flooded by the Orlik Reservoir, which rose there the water level in the valley to 35 m.

Inflows

  • Ostružná ( l ) below Sušice
  • Volyňka (r ) in Strakonice
  • Blanice ( r) at Zátaví
  • Lomnice ( l), at Oslov
  • Losenice ( r) at Rejštejn
  • River system of Moldova
  • River in Europe
  • River in the Czech Republic
  • Bohemian Forest
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