The Arieșul Mare ( hu, Nagy-Aranyos) is a river in the

Apuseni Mountains The Apuseni Mountains ( ro, Munții Apuseni, hu, Erdélyi-középhegység) is a mountain range in Transylvania, Romania, which belongs to the Western Romanian Carpathians, also called ''Occidentali'' in Romanian. Their name translates from Ro ...

, Alba County, western

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. It is the left headwater of the river

Arieș The Arieș ( hu, Aranyos) is a left tributary of the river Mureș in Transylvania, Romania. It discharges into the Mureș in Gura Arieșului, southwest of Luduș. Its total length (including its headwater Arieșul Mare) is , and its drainage ...

. It flows through the villages

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, Gârda de Sus, Scărișoara, Albac and Vadu Moților, and joins the Arieșul Mic (the other headwater) in Mihoești near

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.Ariesul Mare (jud. Alba)
e-calauza.ro Its length is about and its basin size is about .

Tributaries

The following rivers are tributaries to the river Arieșul Mare (from source to mouth): *Left: Cobleș, Gârda Seacă, Valea Starpă and Albac *Right: Vârciorog, Valea Cepelor, Bucura, Ghizghiț and Neagra

References

Rivers of Romania Rivers of Alba County {{Alba-river-stub