Crna Reka – Right tributary of the r. Vardar. It springs in Demir Hisar near the village. IZHNOPE, on the height Crna Reka, the total decline is 631 m. The source consists of 5 larger karst sources, among which more significant is a black hole and under a house, and the source part is located in the northeastern part of the Cervico Pole, under the mountains Baba Sac and Ljuben. It is 207 km long, and its basin covers an area of 5,890 22 km, of which 5,014 km or 85.7% are on the territory of the Republic of Macedonia, and 844.5 2 km or 14.3% belong to neighboring Greece. The average annual flow before the inflow in the r. 3 Vardar is 29.3 m / s. The source flows south through Demir Hisar, and in the village of Bucim enters the Pelagonija valley. In the village, Scouts of Vir leaves her and then enters the longest gorge in Macedonia, which he leaves at the village. Drives and enters the Tikvesh valley. After his course, she receives a larger number of tributaries. On the right side it receives the Shemnica rivers, Dragor, Jelash River, Blisshnica, etc., and from the left side of the Blato, Raeva, etc. In the basin of Crna Reka, 35 artificial reservoirs were built, among which the biggest are Tikvesh, Strezevo and Suvodol, and others are small reservoirs. The water from Black River is used for irrigation, for electricity generation (HPP Tikvesh), fishing, ribergene, sports and recreation and other needs. Lit.: Golden Gashevski, basic hydrographic properties of the main tributaries of Vardar in SR Macedonia, “Geographic reviews”, REC. 17, Skopje, 1979; Aleksandar Stojmilov, Physical Geography of the Republic of Macedonia, PMF, Skopje, 2002. Dr. C.
Original article in Macedonian language Cyrillic alphabet
Кириличен напис ЦРНА РЕКА