Obrh Creek () is a
losing stream
A losing stream, disappearing stream, influent stream or sinking river is a stream or river that loses water as it flows downstream. The water infiltrates into the ground recharging the local groundwater, because the water table is below the bo ...
that originates and terminates in the
Lož Karst Field in the
Municipality of Loška Dolina. It is a watercourse in the
Ljubljanica
The Ljubljanica (), known in the Middle Ages as the ''Sava'', is a river in the southern part of the Ljubljana Basin in Slovenia. The capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana, lies on the river. The Ljubljanica rises south of the town of Vrhnika and flow ...
watershed. It is created by the confluence of Little Obrh Creek ( sl, Mali Obrh) and Big Obrh Creek ( sl, Veliki Obrh); the latter is fed by two tributaries: Brežiček Creek and Viševek Brežiček Creek ( sl, Viševski Brežiček). The confluence, at which point it is simply named ''Obrh'', lies west of the village of
Pudob. In the northwest, limestone part of the karst field, Obrh Creek starts to drain into many
sinkhole
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s, and higher water flows into Golobina Cave. The stream re-emerges at the spring of the
Stržen River to the northwest on the southeast edge of the
Cerknica Karst Field.
Name
The name ''Obrh'' comes from the Slovene common noun ''obrh'', referring to a powerful karst spring that usually surfaces below a cliff, creating a small deep lake that flows into a valley. The noun is originally a fused prepositional phrase, *''ob vьrxъ'' 'at the summit' (i.e., at the highest point of the watercourse).
References
External links
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Obrh Creek on Geopedija
{{Hydrology of Slovenia
Sinking rivers
Municipality of Loška Dolina
Rivers of Inner Carniola