Obrh (creek)

Obrh Creek
Washing clothes in Obrh Creek in 1962
Map
Location
CountrySlovenia
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationLittle Obrh Creek (Slovene: Mali Obrh)
 • coordinates45°40′24.68″N 14°28′45.57″E / 45.6735222°N 14.4793250°E / 45.6735222; 14.4793250
2nd source 
 • locationBig Obrh Creek (Slovene: Velki Obrh)
 • coordinates45°41′59.63″N 14°30′40.93″E / 45.6998972°N 14.5113694°E / 45.6998972; 14.5113694
Mouth 
 • location
Sinks into Golobina Cave in the Lož Karst Field
Basin features
ProgressionStrženRakUnicaLjubljanicaSavaDanubeBlack Sea

Obrh Creek (pronounced [ˈoːbəɾx]) is a losing stream that originates and terminates in the Lož Karst Field in the Municipality of Loška Dolina. It is a watercourse in the Ljubljanica watershed. It is created by the confluence of Little Obrh Creek (Slovene: Mali Obrh) and Big Obrh Creek (Slovene: Veliki Obrh); the latter is fed by two tributaries: Brežiček Creek and Viševek Brežiček Creek (Slovene: Viševski Brežiček). The confluence, at which point it is simply named Obrh, lies west of the village of Pudob.[1] In the northwest, limestone part of the karst field, Obrh Creek starts to drain into many sinkholes, and higher water flows into 850-meter (2,790 ft) Golobina Cave. The stream re-emerges at the spring of the Stržen River 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) to the northwest on the southeast edge of the Cerknica Karst Field.[2][3]

  1. ^ Komac, Blaž, Karel Natek, & Matija Zorn. 2008. Geografski vidiki poplav v Sloveniji (= Geografija Slovenije 20). Ljubljana: ZRC, p. 85.
  2. ^ Gunn, John (ed.). 2004. Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, p. 430.
  3. ^ Shaw, Trevor R. 2008. Foreign Travellers in the Slovene Karst: 1486–1900. Ljubljana: ZRC, p. 32.