Lepenac

Lepenac (Lepenci, Лепенац, Лепенец)
Lepenac through Macedonia
Country	Kosovo, Macedonia
Basin features
Main source	Kodža Balkan mountain, Kosovo 1,820 m (5,970 ft) (source), 262 m (860 ft) (mouth)
River mouth	Vardar, at Skopje, Macedonia
Basin size	770 km2 (300 sq mi)
Physical characteristics
Length	75 km (47 mi)

The Lepenac (Albanian: Lepenci ; Macedonian:  Лепенец ; Serbian: Лепенац , Lepenac) is a river in southern Kosovo and northern Macedonia, a 75 km (47 mi) long left tributary to the Vardar river.

The Lepenac springs out on the Kodža Balkan mountain, east of the city of Prizren, Kosovo, at an altitude of 1,820 m (5,971 ft). It flows eastward, into the župa of Sirinić, between the Žar mountain from the north and alongside the northern slopes of the Šar Mountains from the south. From the Šar Mountains it receives many small tributaries, most notably the Suva reka, as it passes next to the villages of Sevce and Jazhincë, the ski resort of Brezovica and a small town and regional center of Štrpce.

The Lepenac continues between the Šar Mountains from the south and Nerodimka mountain from the north, next to the villages of Biti e Poshtëme, Gotovushë, Brod and Doganaj, where the river makes an elbow turn to the south entering the Kosovo field.