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The Želetavka is a
river A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside Subterranean river, caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of ...
in the
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, a left
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of the
Thaya The Thaya (, ) is a river in the Czech Republic and Austria, a right tributary of the Morava (river), Morava River. It flows through the South Moravian Region in the Czech Republic and through Lower Austria in Austria. It is formed by the conflue ...
River. It flows through the
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. It is long.


Etymology

The river was probably named after the market town of Želetava. However, it is not certain and there is also a hypothesis that the name of the river was derived from the word (meaning 'to cry', referring to its noise) and the market town was named after the river.


Characteristic

The Želetavka originates in the territory of Želetava in the
Křižanov Highlands The Křižanov Highlands (, ) is a highland and a geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is located mostly in the Vysočina Region. Geomorphology The Křižanov Highlands is a mesoregion of the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands within ...
at an elevation of and flows to Bítov, where it enters the Thaya River at an elevation of . It is long. Its
drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...
has an area of . The longest tributaries of the Želetavka are:


Course

The most populated settlement on the river is the town of Jemnice. The river flows through the municipal territories of Želetava, Svojkovice, Jindřichovice, Meziříčko, Krasonice, Radkovice u Budče, Knínice, Budeč, Lomy, Chotěbudice, Jemnice,
Radotice Radotice is a municipality and village in Třebíč District in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 100 inhabitants. Radotice lies approximately south-west of Třebíč, south of Jihlava, and south-east of Prague ...
, Bačkovice, Dešná, Lubnice,
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, Kostníky, Dešov, Zblovice, Vysočany and Bítov.


Bodies of water

There are 239 bodies of water in the basin area. The largest of them is the fishpond Dešná with an area of , supplied by the Blatnice. Several small reservoirs are fishponds are built on the upper and middle course of the river. The Vranov Reservoir, built on the Thaya River, extends also into the river mouth of the Želetavka.


See also

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List of rivers of the Czech Republic This is a list of rivers of the Czech Republic. Naming conventions Czech language distinguishes between large (river; in Czech '' řeka'') and small (stream, creek, brook; in Czech '' potok'') watercourses. River names are mostly self-standing on ...


References


External links


River flow at Vysočany station
– Flood Warning and Forecasting Service of the
Czech Hydrometeorological Institute The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI; ) is the central state office of the Czech Republic in the fields of air quality, meteorology, climatology and hydrology. It is an organization established by the Ministry of the Environment of the Cz ...
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