The Sokobanjska Moravica or simply Moravica (Serbian

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 Cyrillic: Сокобањска Моравица or Моравица) is a river in central eastern Serbia

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, a 58 km-long right tributary to the Južna Morava

Južna Morava

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 river.

Devica and Ozren mountains

The Sokobanjska Moravica originates from the eastern slopes of the Devica

Devica

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 mountain, near the village of Skrobnica. The river flows to the north, turns westward at the village of Levovik and enters the Banja region. The rivers flows between the northern slopes of the Devica and Ozren

Ozren (Sokobanja)

Ozren is a mountain in central Serbia, near the town of Sokobanja. Its highest peak Leskovik has an altitude of 1174 meters above sea level. Ozren is well-forested and attractive as a picnic ground for visitors to the Soko spa....

 mountains (on the south) and southern slopes of the Rtanj

Rtanj

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 mountain (on the north), next to the villages of Čitluk

Citluk

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 (including a coal mine), Vrela and Blendija, reaching the town of Sokobanja

Sokobanja

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, a center of Sokobanja depression and of the whole Banja region.

Bovan

After the villages of Poružnica and Trubarevac, the Sokobanjska Moravica turns south, curving between the western tip of the Ozren and southern slopes of the Bukovik mountain. At the village of Bovan, the river is dammed, as part of the complex project of the Velika Morava

Velika Morava

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 river regulation. Artificial Bovan lake flooded the Bovan gorge carved by the river and is very popular local and regional tourist destination, especially among campers and fishermen, but the coastline is not put in order. The river continues to the south, in an inverse

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 flow, and after the villages of Subotinac and Kraljevo, it empties into the Južna Morava at the town of Aleksinac

Aleksinac

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. The lower section used to be a coal mining area too, just like the upper one, but the mines (Aleksinački Rudnik

Aleksinacki Rudnik

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) are closed now.

The Sokobanjska Moravica brlongs to the Black Sea

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 drainage basin

Drainage basin

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, drains an area of 606 km² itself, and it is not navigable.