Lonja is a river in central

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, a left tributary of the

Sava The Sava (; , ; sr-cyr, Сава, hu, Száva) is a river in Central and Southeast Europe, a right-bank and the longest tributary of the Danube. It flows through Slovenia, Croatia and along its border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and finally th ...

. It is long and its basin covers an area of . The Lonja rises in the Kalnik mountain in northern Croatia, southeast of

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, at . It flows westward until turning south near Breznički Hum, passing east of Sveti Ivan Zelina, and turning southeast near Sveta Helena. East of Lupoglav, it turns south again, passing through

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and nearing the river

. It then flows in parallel to the Sava for the rest of its course, and the nature park

Lonjsko polje Lonjsko Polje (English: ''Lonja Field'') is the largest protected wetland in both Croatia and the entire Danube basin. It covers an area of , extending along the river Sava from the areas east of Sisak, the lower course of the river Lonja for ...

, a protected area, covers the remainder of the Lonja river basin. Near the end of its course, the river splits into ''Stara Lonja'' ("Old Lonja") that enters Sava at the eponymous village of Lonja; and ''Trebeš'' or ''Trebež'' that discharges into Sava some 5.5 km downstream in the eponymous village of Trebež at . The main tributaries of the Lonja are: *

Česma Česma is a river in central Croatia, a left tributary of the river Lonja-Trebež. It is long, and its catchment area is . Created by merging streams ''Grđevica'' and ''Barna'' at near the village of Pavlovac in the municipality of Veliki ...

(Čazma) (106 km long), which joins Lonja northeast of Sisak * Zelina, south of

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