Myjava (river)

Myjava
Myjava
	Myjava in the Záhorie Protected Landscape Area
Location
Countries	Czech Republic; Slovakia;
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Nová Lhota, White Carpathians
• elevation	660 m (2,170 ft)
Mouth	Morava
• location	Kúty
• elevation	152 m (499 ft)
Length	79 km (49 mi)
Basin size	745 km2 (288 sq mi)
Discharge
• location	Štefanov
• average	2.64 m3/s (93 cu ft/s)
• minimum	0.2 m3/s (7.1 cu ft/s)
• maximum	109 m3/s (3,800 cu ft/s)
Basin features
Progression	Morava→ Danube→ Black Sea

The Myjava is a river in Slovakia and briefly in the Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Morava River. It is 79 km (49 mi) long. Its drainage basin has an area of 745 km² (288 sq mi).^[1]

It rises in the White Carpathians near the village of Nová Lhota in Moravia, but crosses the Czech-Slovak border shortly afterwards and flows in a southern direction until the town of Myjava, where it enters the Myjava Hills and turns west. Near Sobotište it flows into the Záhorie Lowland and turns south until the village of Jablonica, turning northwest and from Senica it flows west, passing through Šaštín-Stráže and finally flowing into the Morava River near Kúty.

Etymology

The stem myj- comes from Proto-Slavic *myjǫ (Slovak: mytie, podmývanie), meaning "to wash", "to undermine river banks".^[2]

References

^ "Veterný park Myjava, lokalita Vesný vrch" (PDF) (in Slovak). April 2006. p. 18. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
^ Závodný, Andrej (2007). "O názvoch riek a potokov na Záhorí" [About river and creek names in Záhorie]. Záhorie (in Slovak) (1). Archived from the original on 2017-05-10.

48°38′N 16°58′E / 48.633°N 16.967°E / 48.633; 16.967

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[1] "Veterný park Myjava, lokalita Vesný vrch" (PDF) (in Slovak). April 2006. p. 18. Retrieved 2024-11-01.

[2] Závodný, Andrej (2007). "O názvoch riek a potokov na Záhorí" [About river and creek names in Záhorie]. Záhorie (in Slovak) (1). Archived from the original on 2017-05-10.

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