Cirocha (; ) is a right tributary of the river
Laborec
The Laborec (; ) is a river in eastern Slovakia that flows through the districts of Medzilaborce, Humenné, and Michalovce in the Košice Region, and the Prešov Region. The river drains the Laborec Highlands. It is long and its basin size is . ...
in the
Prešov Region
The Prešov Region (, ; ), also Priashiv Region (, ), is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions and consists of 13 districts (okresy) and 666 municipalities, 23 of which have town status. The region was established in 1996 and is the mos ...
of eastern
Slovakia
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. It is long and its
drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...
size is .
Plán manažmentu povodňového rizikavčiastkovom povodí Bodrogu
, p. 51 Its average flow is 2.85 m³/s in Snina.
Course
The headwater
The headwater of a river or stream is the geographical point of its beginning, specifically where surface runoff water begins to accumulate into a flowing channel of water. A river or stream into which one or many tributary rivers or streams flo ...
s of the Cirocha are in the Bukovské vrchy
The Bukovec Mountains (; ) is a flysch mountain range in north-eastern Slovakia, part of the Eastern Beskids of the Outer Eastern Carpathians.
It is located in the Prešov Region near the borders with Poland (Bieszczady Mountains) and Ukraine, ...
mountains under the ''Ruské sedlo'' saddle at the Slovak- Polish border. It flows south and west after first few kilometres into the Starina reservoir, flowing further to the municipalities of Snina and Stakčín
Stakčín (, ) is a larger village and a municipality in Snina District in the Prešov Region of north-eastern Slovakia.
Geography
The municipality lies in the Cirocha river valley, at an altitude of 257 metres and with a total area of 167.742&nb ...
. From Stakčín it flows to the west, to its confluence
In geography, a confluence (also ''conflux'') occurs where two or more watercourses join to form a single channel (geography), channel. A confluence can occur in several configurations: at the point where a tributary joins a larger river (main ...
with the Laborec river near Humenné
Humenné (; ; ) is a town in the Prešov Region ("kraj") in eastern Slovakia and the second largest town of the historic Zemplín region. It lies at the volcanic Vihorlat mountains and at the confluence of the Laborec and Cirocha Rivers.
Na ...
.
See also
* List of rivers of Slovakia
References
External links
Rivers of Slovakia
Geography of Prešov Region
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