Europe watershed of Baltic and Black sea, Czech Republic
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N 49° 34.568 E 017° 46.680
33U E 700823 N 5495212
Europe watershed of Baltic and Black sea - a roof of Europe
Waymark Code: WMWQK0
Location: Olomoucký kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 10/03/2017
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European Watershed
The European Watershed is the line which divides the drainage basins of the major rivers of Germany: the Rhine, which originates in the Swiss Alps and empties into the North Sea via the Netherlands, and the Danube, which originates in the Black Forest and flows eastward emptying into the Black Sea.
The watershed is not a clearly defined divide. Tectonics, especially in the area that is now the Upper Rhine Plain, created River Rhine. As its headward erosion is much stronger than that of the much older River Danube (see the upper river geology) (due to the Rhine’s gravity[clarification needed] on its much shorter way to the North Sea), the Rhine and its tributaries intrude deeper into phreatic zones of the Swabian Karst and even capture the upper Danube and its surface tributaries.
A major European watershed passes through the territory of the Czech Republic and separates the basins of the North, Baltic and Black Scas. The dividimi nodc of the three scas is the mountain Králický Snežník (1423m above sea lcvcl). The principál rivcrs are the Labe (370 km) and the Vltava (433 km) in Bohemia, the Morava (246 km) and the Dyje (306 km) in Moravia, and the Odra (135 km) and the Opava (131 km) in Silesia and northern Moravia.
This watershed is located beside a road Hranice-Belotin town.
Type: Monument
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