The Sava Bohinjka is a headwater of the

Sava The Sava (; , ; sr-cyr, Сава, hu, Száva) is a river in Central and Southeast Europe, a right-bank and the longest tributary of the Danube. It flows through Slovenia, Croatia and along its border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and finally t ...

River in northwestern

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. At in length, it is the shorter of the two headwaters that become the Sava River in

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, the other being the -long Sava Dolinka.

Course

The Sava Bohinjka originates under the Komarča Crag at an elevation of , from springs fed by the Triglav Lakes Valley. Until it reaches

Lake Bohinj Lake Bohinj ( sl, Bohinjsko jezero, german: Wocheiner See), covering , is the largest permanent lake in Slovenia. It is located within the Bohinj Valley of the Julian Alps, in the northwestern Upper Carniola region, and part of Triglav National Par ...

, the river is known as the Savica ('little Sava'), and features the -high Savica Falls ( sl, slap Savica) at its source.Baedeker, Karl (1879) "Terglou: The Valley of the Wocheiner Save" ''The Eastern Alps: Including the Bavarian Highlands, the Tyrol, Salzkammergut, Styria, and Carinthia'' (4th ed.) Dulau and Co., London
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It then flows through the Ukanc Gorge, where the 3 MW Savica power plant is located, before flowing into

, where it creates a small

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. It flows from Lake Bohinj as the Sava Bohinjka through

Bohinjska Bistrica Bohinjska Bistrica (; german: Wocheiner Feistritz) is the largest settlement and administrative centre of the Municipality of Bohinj, in the Upper Carniola region of northwestern Slovenia. Geography The settlement lies in the Julian Alps southw ...

, Bohinjska Bela, and close to Lake Bled, before meeting the Sava Dolinka near Radovljica.

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- graphs, in the following order, of water level, flow and temperature data for the past 30 days (taken at Sveti Janez and Bodešče by

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) Rivers of Upper Carniola Rivers of the Julian Alps Municipality of Bohinj Municipality of Bled Municipality of Radovljica {{Slovenia-river-stub