Rivers of the Central Bohemian Region - Elbe, Vltava, Berounka, Jizera, S Zava, Mrlina, Blanice, Klejn Rka, Cidlina (Paperback)

Chapters: Elbe, Vltava, Berounka, Jizera, S zava, Mrlina, Blanice, Klejn rka, Cidlina. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Elbe - The Elbe rises at an elevation of about 1,400 metres (4,593 ft) in the Krkonoe (also known as Giant Mountains or in German as Riesengebirge) on the north west borders of the Czech Republic. Of the numerous small streams whose waters compose the infant river, the most important is the B l Labe, or White Elbe. After plunging down the 60 metres (197 ft) of the Labsk vodop d, the latter stream unites with the steeply torrential Mal Labe, and thereafter the united stream of the Elbe pursues a southerly course, emerging from the mountain glens at and continuing on to Pardubice, where it turns sharply to the west. At Kol n some 43 kilometres (27 mi) further on, it bends gradually towards the north-west. At the village of K ran, a little above Brand s nad Labem it picks up the Jizera. The Elbe near Festung K nigstein in Germany.At Mln k its stream is more than doubled in volume by the Vltava, or Moldau, a river which winds northwards through Bohemia. Although upstream from the confluence Vltava is longer (434 kilometres (270 mi) against 294 kilometres (183 mi)), has larger discharge and larger drainage basin, due to historical reasons (at the confluence the Vltava meets the Elbe at almost a right angle, so it appears as a tributary) the river continues as Elbe. Some distance lower down, at Litomice, the waters of the Elbe are tinted by the reddish Ohe (Eger). Thus augmented, and swollen into a stream 140 metres (459 ft) wide, the Elbe carves a path through the basaltic mass of the esk Stedoho, churning its way through a deep, narrow rocky gorge. Shortly after crossing the Czech-German frontier, and passing through the sand...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=50759