Tara (Drina)

Tara Canyon

Hydrographic map of the southeastern Dinarides

Bridge at Djurdjevica Tara

The Tara is one of the headwaters of the River Drina and at 140 km length of the longest river in Montenegro. In its lower reaches the Tara has trained a canyon that is the longest and deepest in Europe.

Course

The river is formed at an altitude of about 2000 meters in the Žijevo Mountains, on the Montenegrin- Albanian border, approximately 30 km south of Kolasin from the confluence of the Opasanica and the somewhat larger as longer Veruša. From Prošćenje to the confluence with the Piva at Hum on the Montenegrin- Bosnian border, the Tara has carved over the millennia than 1,300 meters deep in the surrounding mountains and formed the Tara Canyon. The river has an average gradient of 3.6 m / km in this area.

Tara Canyon

The Tara canyon has a length of 78 kilometers and a depth of over 1300 meters. This makes it the longest and deepest gorge in Europe. It belongs next to the Colorado Canyon in the U.S. and some Asian gorges of the largest in the world.

National park

1977, the lower educated than Gorge area of ​​the river was included as part of the Durmitor National Park by UNESCO in the World Heritage List.

Water

Because of the many, up to 60 m high waterfalls and cascades that Tara is a paradise for rafting athletes.

Bridges

While there are several bridges in the upper reaches of Tara, the European Route 65 at Mojkovac and two bridges of the railway Belgrade - Bar between Mojkovac and Kolasin, finds himself in the middle and lower reaches of the river due to the topography and sparse population with the Djurdjevica - Tara Bridge only an important bridge. This is 350 meters long and up to 150 meters high.