Drinjača (

Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet (, ), also known as the Serbian script, (, ), is a standardized variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language. It originated in medieval Serbia and was significantly reformed in the 19th cen ...

: Дрињача) is a left tributary of the

Drina The Drina ( sr-Cyrl, Дрина, ) is a long river in the Balkans, which forms a large portion of the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. It is the longest tributary of the Sava River and the longest karst river in the Dinaric Al ...

in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It rises on the mountain of Konjuh (1,326 m) 15 km northwest of Kladanj at an elevation of about 1,000 m and ends after 87.5 km in the Drina, south of

Zvornik Zvornik ( sr-cyrl, Зворник, ) is a city in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2013, it had a population of 58,856 inhabitants. Zvornik is located on the Drina River, on the eastern slopes of Majevica mountain, at the altitude of ...

. The catchment area covers 1,091 km². The river Drinjača offers terrains for recreational fishing on salmonids and numerous other fish species, but is primarily an important spawning ground for

huchen The huchen (''Hucho hucho'') (, from German), also known as Danube salmon or redfish (), is a large species of freshwater fish in the family Salmonidae native to the Danube basin in Central and Eastern Europe. It is the type species of genus ...

and nase, both of which enter the river from the Drina river.

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Rivers of Bosnia and Herzegovina Zvornik Glasinac plateau Hucho habitats in Bosnia and Herzegovina Recreational fishing in Bosnia and Herzegovina {{BosniaHerzegovina-river-stub