The Vuger (or Vugrovec) is a

stream A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a strea ...

located in

Zagreb Zagreb ( ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, north of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the ...

, Croatia, in the district of

Sesvete Sesvete () is the easternmost city district of Zagreb, Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwe ...

. Its name is connected to the settlement of

Vugrovec Vugrovec is a village in Croatia. It is formally a settlement (naselje) of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. For the 1991 Croatian census, the village was divided into Vugrovec Gornji and Vugrovec Donji. For the 2021 Croatian census, Vugrovec Don ...

, which is located near the stream's source. The lower basin of the Vuger, from its confluence with the

Rijeka Rijeka (; Fiume ( �fjuːme in Italian and in Fiuman dialect, Fiuman Venetian) is the principal seaport and the List of cities and towns in Croatia, third-largest city in Croatia. It is located in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County on Kvarner Ba ...

stream at Srednjak, is also called the Kostanić. In the Middle Ages, the Kostanić was known as the Sopnica river. Vuger is classified as a Class I waterflow and a potential flood hazard. It is one of the few streams in Zagreb that have not been covered as of yet. Part of the stream forms the western boundary of Sesvete's historic core.

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