The Ledava (German: Limbach, Hungarian: Lendva) is a river of

Styria Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered to ...

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and of ,

Prekmurje Prekmurje (; dialectically: ''Prèkmürsko'' or ''Prèkmüre''; hu, Muravidék) is a geographically, linguistically, culturally and ethnically defined region of Slovenia, settled by Slovenes and a Hungarian minority, lying between the Mur Ri ...

, northeastern

Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...

. The Ledava is the largest river of Goričko and the largest tributary of the Mur in Slovenia. It is in length. It originates in Austria as the and first flows southeast. It enters Slovenia near , the highest peak of Prekmurje (), and flows south as the ''Ledava''. In this part of its course it forms the only

gorge 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 ...

in Goričko. In the village of Ropoča, Municipality of Rogašovci, it flows into the , which distinguishes itself by a variety of bird species, a variety of

dragonflies A dragonfly is a flying insect belonging to the infraorder Anisoptera below the order Odonata. About 3,000 extant species of true dragonfly are known. Most are tropical, with fewer species in temperate regions. Loss of wetland habitat threa ...

, and the best preserved

otter Otters are carnivorous mammals in the subfamily Lutrinae. The 13 extant otter species are all semiaquatic, aquatic, or marine, with diets based on fish and invertebrates. Lutrinae is a branch of the Mustelidae family, which also includes wea ...

population in Slovenia. The Ledava is the only outflow from the lake. In its lower course the river flows through

Murska Sobota Murska Sobota (, Slovenian abbreviation: ''MS'' ; german: Olsnitz;''Radkersburg und Luttenberg'' (map, 1:75,000). 1894. Vienna: K.u.k. Militärgeographisches Institut. hu, Muraszombat) is a town in northeastern Slovenia. It is the centre of the ...

and

Lendava Lendava (; formerly ''Dolnja Lendava'', in older sources also ''Dolenja Lendava''; hu, Lendva, formerly ''Alsólendva''; german: Lindau, formerly ''Unter-Limbach'') is a town in Slovenia in the region of Prekmurje. It is the seat of the Municip ...

. It has several (mainly left) tributaries in this part, the largest of them being the

Kerka The Kerka ( sl, Krka, hu, Kerka, ''Kerkás,'' Prekmurje Slovene: ''Kerka'') is a river of Slovenia and Hungary. It is a left tributary of the Ledava near Kerkaszentkirály. In its upper course, upstream from its confluence with the ''Little Kerk ...

and the longest

Kobilje Creek Kobilje Creek ( hu, Kebele, sl, Kobiljski potok or ) is a stream in northeastern Slovenia and western Hungary. The stream is long; of the course is in Slovenia. Its source is at Kamenek Hill () and it flows through Kobilje, crosses the Slovenian ...

. Finally, it joins the Mur next to the

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n- Hungarian-Slovenian border near

Muraszemenye Muraszemenye ( hr, Semenince) is a village in Zala County, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the no ...

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Condition of Ledava
- graphs, in the following order, of water level, flow and temperature data for the past 30 days (taken in

Čentiba Čentiba (; hu, Csente) is a settlement southeast of Lendava in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia, close to the border with Hungary. The local church in the settlement is dedicated to the Nativity of Mary and belongs to the Parish A parish is a ...

ARSO The Slovenian Environment Agency (Slovenian: ''Agencija Republike Slovenije za okolje'' or ''ARSO'') is the main organisation for environment of the Republic of Slovenia. It was established in 2001 with a reorganisation of the ''Hydrometeorological ...

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