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Jossa is a river of
The Jossa has a length of 32.3 kilometres.
It originates at , an ''Ortsteil'' of
Hesse
Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major historic cities are Dar ...
, Germany
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. It is a tributary of the Sinn
In the philosophy of language, the distinction between sense and reference was an idea of the German philosopher and mathematician Gottlob Frege in 1892 (in his paper "On Sense and Reference"; German: "Über Sinn und Bedeutung"), reflecting the ...
, which in turn flows into the Franconian Saale shortly before the latter discharges into the Main
Main may refer to:
Geography
* Main River (disambiguation)
**Most commonly the Main (river) in Germany
* Main, Iran, a village in Fars Province
*"Spanish Main", the Caribbean coasts of mainland Spanish territories in the 16th and 17th centuries
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at Gemünden am Main
Gemünden am Main (officially ''Gemünden a.Main'') is a town in the Main-Spessart district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'') in Bavaria, Germany and lies roughly 40 km down the Main from Würzburg. Gemünd ...
.
Course
The Jossa has a length of 32.3 kilometres.
It originates at , an ''Ortsteil'' of Jossgrund
Jossgrund is a municipality in the Main-Kinzig district, in Hesse, Germany. It has around 3,500 inhabitants distributed among several formerly independent villages, now ''Ortsteile''. The administration seat is at Oberndorf.
Geography Location
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. Here the Villbach is joined by the ''Lettgenbrunner Quelle''. Since 2007, the place has been marked by a large boulder.
The Jossa then flows southeast before turning northwards. Passing and (two other parts of Jossgrund) it gradually turns east north of , part of Bad Soden-Salmünster. Its northernmost point is near (part of Steinau an der Strasse) and it then flows southeast to discharge into the Sinn at Jossa, a part of Sinntal
Sinntal is a municipality in the Main-Kinzig district, in Hesse, Germany. It has a population of around 8,800.
Geography
Location
Sinntal is located around 30 km south of Fulda in the Main-Kinzig district of Hesse.
The municipal territo ...
.
Watershed
The Jossa and its tributaries drain an area of around 146.7 square kilometres. It marks the border of the area that drains to the east towards the Sinn. To the west and north lies the Kinzig watershed.Natural history
Beavers
Beavers are large, semiaquatic rodents in the genus ''Castor'' native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. There are two extant species: the North American beaver (''Castor canadensis'') and the Eurasian beaver (''C. fiber''). Beavers a ...
have been successfully reintroduced since 1987/88 in the Jossa and Sinn valleys. From an original population of 18 beavers (from the Elbe
The Elbe (; cs, Labe ; nds, Ilv or ''Elv''; Upper and dsb, Łobjo) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Re ...
river), their numbers have recently grown to more than 200.
See also
*List of rivers of Hesse
A list of rivers of Hesse, Germany:
A
*Aar, tributary of the Dill
*Aar, tributary of the Lahn
*Aar, tributary of the Twiste
* Aarbach
* Affhöllerbach
* Ahlersbach, tributary of the Kinzig in Schlüchtern-Herolz
* Ahlersbach, tributary of the Ki ...
References
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