The Čabranka is a small

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on the border between

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and

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. It is long and is a left

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of the

Kupa River The Kupa () or Kolpa ( or ; from la, Colapis in Roman times; hu, Kulpa) river, a right tributary of the Sava, forms a natural border between north-west Croatia and southeast Slovenia. It is long, with its border part having a length of and t ...

( hr, Kupa, sl, Kolpa). Its

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is just west of the settlement of

Podplanina Podplanina (; in older sources also ''Planina'',''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 42. german: Alben,Petschauer, Erich. 1980. "Die Gotts ...

in the

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in southern Slovenia and just north of the Croatian village of

Čabar Čabar is a town in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County in western Croatia. There are 3,770 inhabitants (census 2011), in the following settlements: * Bazli, population 5 * Brinjeva Draga, population 5 * Crni Lazi, population 117 * Čabar, popula ...

, from which it gets its name.Gorski Kotar site
/ref> It joins the Kupa at Osilnica.

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Čabranka on Geopedia
Rivers of White Carniola Rivers of Croatia Croatia–Slovenia border International rivers of Europe Border rivers {{Croatia-river-stub

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