Sajó

The Sajó at Sajónémeti

The course and the catchment area of ​​Sajó / Slaná in Slovakia and Hungary

The Sajó ( Hungarian) or Slaná (Slovak, German rarely the salt of salt or salt creek ) is a 230 km long river in central Slovakia and northeastern Hungary. It flows in a southeasterly direction to the Tisza River - which drains most of Hungary and Romania - ranks among the Slovak rivers about the fifth one ( among those of lower Hungary ).

The river rises in the Stolické Hills (part of the Slovak Ore Mountains ) in the city Dobšiná and flows in Slovakia to the south through the towns Rožňava and Tornaľa the Hungarian border. In the border village Lenartovce the Slaná takes its biggest Slovak inflow, the Rimava on.

In the Putnok now leisurely river leaves Slovakia and enters the area of the Northern Hungarian Central Mountains. In Hungary, the river is called Sajó. It flows through the towns Kazincbarcika and Sajószentpéter (St. Peter at Sajo ), remembers their low altitude of about 130 meters to the nearby Great Hungarian Plain. Following a fascinating passage of the 960 m high Bükk finally there is the regional capital and university town of Miskolc in sight. Here is a traditional mining faculty has its headquarters

A few kilometers further unite the river with the about the same size Hernád (Slovak Hornád ) and meanders now in several loops of the dominant power of the Tisza (Hungarian Tisza ) to. At the catchment area of 160,000 km ² (nearly 2x Hungary) carry Sajó and Hernád at about one-tenth.

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