Latorica, Латориця | |
Mouth Location: | Bodrog |
Mouth Coordinates: | 48.4547°N 21.8195°W |
Tributaries Right: | Laborec |
Subdivision Type1: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | Ukraine, Slovakia |
Length: | 188km (117miles) |
Source1: | Wooded Carpathians |
Source1 Location: | Ukraine |
Source1 Coordinates: | 48.848°N 23.1298°W |
Source1 Elevation: | 850m (2,790feet) |
Discharge1 Avg: | 37m3/s in Chop |
Basin Size: | 7740km2 |
Latorica (Hungarian: Latorca; Slovak: Latorica, pronounced: Latoritsa; Ukrainian: Латориця, translit.: Latorytsia) is a river in the watershed of the Danube. Its source is in the Ukrainian Carpathians (Eastern Carpathian Mountains), near the village . It flows from Ukraine (156.6 km) to Slovakia (31.4 km), 188 km in total and west through the towns of Svaliava, Mukachevo, Solomonovo, Chop and Veľké Kapušany. Its basin size is 7740km2.[1] Its confluence with the Ondava, in Zemplín, gives rise to the Bodrog river, itself a tributary of the Tisza.
A part of its watershed (Latorica Protected Landscape Area, "Ramsar site No. 606", 44.05 km2) has been added to the Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance since 1993.
It is interpreted differently: according to one hypothesis, it is a pre-Slavic noun, according to others it is related to Slavic, based on lat- "studeny" (meaning "cold river").[2]