Čude Canyon is a short but deep

canyon A canyon (from ; archaic British English spelling: ''cañon''), or gorge, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosion, erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales. Rivers have a natural tenden ...

created by the

Stupčanica The Stupčanica ( sr-cyrl, Ступчаница) is a small river in central-northern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Stupčanica meets with the Bioštica at the small town of Olovo Olovo ( sr-cyrl, Олово) is a town and municipality loc ...

river in central-northeastern part of

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and H ...

, in

Olovo Olovo ( sr-cyrl, Олово) is a town and municipality located in the Zenica-Doboj Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated about 50 kilometers northeast of the capital city of Saraj ...

municipality. The Stupčanica cuts through steep slopes of Gradac, on the right bank, and Krševi, on the left, thus creating over a half of kilometer deep canyon (cca. 600 meters), only 3.8 kilometers long, and just few hundreds meters wide at the rim levels, while at the river level canyon is often only 2-3 meters wide. The ''Čude Canyon'' is protected natural monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.Rezervat prirodnih predjela Zakon o zaštiti prirode BiH, ("Službeni list SR BiH", broj: 4/65, od 5. februara 1965. godine)

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Čude Canyon in TV reportage (youtube.com)
Canyons and gorges of Bosnia and Herzegovina Rivers of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosna basin Krivaja (Bosna) Nature monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina Environment of Bosnia and Herzegovina {{BosniaHerzegovina-river-stub