The Dobličica is a stream in
White Carniola
White Carniola ( sl, Bela krajina; german: Weißkrain or ''Weiße Mark'') is a traditional region in southeastern Slovenia on the border with Croatia. Due to its smallness, it is often considered a subunit of the broader Lower Carniola region, alth ...
. It is part of a karst aquifer. Due to its geological and hydrological characteristics and urbanization of the area, it is considered sensitive and subject to pollution.
Geography
The Dobličica has its source in the eastern foothills of Mount Poljane ( sl, Poljanska gora) at Lake Dobliče ( sl, Dobličko jezero), which is across and up to deep. The bed of the lake is covered with large boulders, among which karst water flows from two depressions. A
karst spring
A karst spring or karstic spring is a spring (outflow of groundwater) that is part of a karst hydrological system.
Description
Because of their often conical or inverted bowl shape, karst springs are also known in German-speaking lands as a ''Top ...
with a constant flow feeds the lake, with an outflow in a broad but shallow channel. The upper part of the stream bed is rocky mixed with sand, and the banks are loamy. Soon after the source, another spring adds its water to the flow from the lake. The channel is bordered by typical riverside vegetation and meanders through meadows before being joined by another stream, the Potok, and emptying into the
Lahinja River at
Črnomelj
Črnomelj (; in older sources also ''Černomelj'', german: Tschernembl''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 4.) is a town in southeastern S ...
. The Dobličica and the Lahinja surround the old town center of Črnomelj on three sides.
[Dular, Janez, & Sneža Tecco Hvala. 2007. ''Jugovzhodna Slovenija v starejsi Zelezni dobi / South Eastern Slovenia in the Early Iron Age''. Ljubljana: ZRC, p. 184.]
A
catchwater
A catchwater device is a large-scale man-made device for catching surface runoff from hills and the sky from precipitation by channeling it to reservoirs for commercial and domestic use later. Freshwater is a scarce natural resource due to pollutio ...
for the White Carniola water system was created near the lake in 1958.
Black olm
In 1986, members of the Slovenian Karst Research Institute discovered
black olms (''Proteus anginius parkelj'') during experimental pumping at the lake.
Sources
* Inventar najpomembnejše naravne dediščine Slovenije (Lahinja), Ljubljana, 1991
See also
*
List of rivers of Slovenia
300px, Map of river systems in Slovenia
This is a list of rivers of Slovenia. There are 59 major rivers in Slovenia, altogether measuring about in length. The total length of all rivers in Slovenia is , which gives a river density of 1,33 ...
References
External links
*
Dobličica at Geopedia
Rivers of White Carniola
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