The Skaručna Basin (; ) is part of the

Ljubljana Basin The Ljubljana Basin () is a basin in the upper river basin of Sava. It is the most populated area in Slovenia and it is metropolitan area of Ljubljana. Its main rivers are the Sava, the Kamnik Bistrica and the Ljubljanica. Cities and towns * ...

Slovenia Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriati ...

Geography

The Skaručna Basin has a characteristic mixed cultural landscape, with meadows, tilled fields, pastures, watercourses, vegetation corridors, hedgerows, isolated hills, and settlements on the edge of the floodplain. Graben Creek starts at Loess Pond ( or ''Puhliški bajer'', also known as Koseze Pond, ''Koseški bajer''Phliški bajer.
/ref>) in the northeast part of the basin; the pond is a former clay pit created about 200 years ago where ice was also harvested until the First World War. Graben Creek runs along the southeast edge of the basin, fed by Brodnek Spring, Smrekar Spring (), and Štefan Spring () The basin includes the settlements of Vojsko,

Skaručna Skaručna (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 32.) is a village in the Municipality of Vodice in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. ...

, Vesca, Selo pri Vodicah, and

Šinkov Turn Šinkov Turn (; in older sources ''Šenkov Turn'',''Krajevni leksikon Dravske Banovine''. 1937. Ljubljana: Zveza za tujski promet za Slovenijo, p. 209. ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 190 ...

.Frišek, Anja, 2008. ''Strokovne podlage za Krajinski park Dobeno''. Ljubljana: Filozofska fakulteta, Oddelek za geografijo, p. 12.

References

External links

Skaručna Basin on Geopedia
{{DEFAULTSORT:Skarucna Basin Structural basins of Slovenia