Rasina (river)

See also: Rasina

The Rasina , in Serb Cyrillic Расина, is a river of Serbia. Its length is of 92 km. It gives its name to the area of the Rasina and the current district of Rasina. It is thrown in the Zapadna Morava close to the town of Kruševac.

Rasina belongs to the basin of drainage of the Black Sea; its own basin of drainage covers a surface of 994 km ². The river is not navigable.

Rasina takes its source on the southernmost slopes of the mount Goč, close to Rašovka, in the south-west of the thermal spa of Vrnjačka Banja. The river runs initially towards south-east, in the neighborhoods of the mounts Željin and Kopaonik, towards Mitrovo Polje, Bzenica, Pleš, Jablanica, Grčak, Toskići, Budilovina and Milentija. It reaches then the small town of Brus and continues in direction of the villages of Tršanovci, Lepenac and Razbojna.

At this place, Rasina reaches the Western slope of the mount Veliki Jastrebac then made an elbow towards north. In this part of its course, the river is used as border with the area of the Aleksandrovačka Župa. After Bogiše and Zlatari, a stopping was built in Ćelije and the river forms a lake articifiel, the lake of Ćelije (4,16 km ², volume 51 million m ³). This lake belongs to a programme of regularization of the Velika Morava and it feeds the town of Kruševac.

The area of low Rasina densément is densément populated (villages of Suvaja, Majdevo, Štitare, Grkljane, Šogolj, Šavrane, Gornji Stepoš, Bukovica, Donji Stepoš, Lipovac, Malo Golovode, Donje Golovode). One finds there also the center administrative of the district, the town of Kruševac. In the lower part of its course, Rasina runs in parallel with Pepeljuša. 7 km after Kruševac, the river are thrown in Zapadna Morava with Makrešane.

References

Mala Prosvetina Enciklopedija , 3rd edition (1985); Prosveta; ISBN 86-07-00001-2
Jovan Đ. Marković (1990): Enciklopedijski geografski leksikon Jugoslavije ; Svjetlost-Sarajevo; ISBN 86-01-02651-6

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List of the rivers of Serbia

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