Orava (river)
| Orava | |
| Hungarian: Árva, German: Arwa, Polish: Orawa | |
| River | |
 Orava River at Dolný Kubín, showing houses of Záskalie neighbourhood
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| Country | Slovakia |
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| Source | Orava reservoir, taking water from White Orava in Slovakia and from Black Orava in Poland |
| - elevation | 601 m (1,972 ft) |
| - coordinates | 49°23′N 19°33′E / 49.383°N 19.550°E |
| Mouth | Váh river |
| - location | Kraľovany |
| - elevation | 430.7 m (1,413 ft) |
| - coordinates | 49°09′N 19°09′E / 49.150°N 19.150°ECoordinates: 49°09′N 19°09′E / 49.150°N 19.150°E |
| Length | 60.9 km (38 mi) |
| Basin | 1,991.8 km2 (769 sq mi) |
| Discharge | mouth |
| - average | 34.5 m3/s (1,218 cu ft/s) |
| - max | 1,120 m3/s (39,552 cu ft/s) |
| - min | 2.3 m3/s (81 cu ft/s) |
| Progression | Váh→ Danube→ Black Sea |
The Orava (Hungarian: Árva) is a 60.9 km long river in north-western Slovakia passing through a picturesque country, in the Orava county. Its source is nowadays the Orava water reservoir whose waters flooded the confluence of Biela (White) Orava and Čierna (Black) Orava in 1953. It flows into the river Váh near the village of Kraľovany.
The name is of Slavic or Pre-Slavic origin. Proto-Slavic *or-, *orati: to scream, to roar (roaring river), Pre-Slavic *er-/*or-: fast, swift (swift river). The suffix -ava is typical for older Slovak hydronyms, but it can be derived also from Germanic -ahwa (water). The earliest records are fl. Arua (1287) and Oravia (1314).
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