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Almost all of the both, the Piva and the Komarnica, course are flooded by the reservoir of the ''Piva Lake''. |
Almost all of the both, the Piva and the Komarnica, course are flooded by the reservoir of the ''Piva Lake''. |
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| − | + | The canyon is cut between the mountains of Bioč and Pivska Planina on Montenegro side, and [[Maglić]] and [[Volujak]] from [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] side, its 33 km long, deep up to 1.200 m and river generates immense power used for the power station of ''Mratinje ''(342 MW) which dammed the canyon in 1975. The dam is 228 m high, one of the highest in Europe and creates artificial ''Piva Lake'', largest in Montenegro (12,5 km², altitude 675 m, 188 m deep). |
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| − | After the dam, the Piva continues straight to the north, through the only remaining part of the canyon and enters [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] some 2 km before finally meets the [[Tara River]] at Šćepan Polje, near the border with Montenegro, and with the Tara creates the [[Drina River]]. |
+ | After the dam, the Piva continues straight to the north, through the only remaining part of the canyon and enters [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] some 2 km before finally meets the [[Tara River]] at Šćepan Polje, near the border with Montenegro, and with the Tara creates the [[Drina River]].[[File:Sastavci_Pive_i_Tare_–_Confluence_of_Tara_and_Piva_River_–_Drina_River_(Šcepan_Polje_–_Bastasi).jpg|thumb|300px|The Tara and the Piva river confluence and source of the Drina River. Bosnia and Herzegovina in foreground and upper right corner, Montenegro in upper left corner.]] |
The Piva belongs to the Black Sea drainage basin with its own drainage area of 1.270 km² and is not navigable. |
The Piva belongs to the Black Sea drainage basin with its own drainage area of 1.270 km² and is not navigable. |
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