| Myjava | |
|---|---|
 Myjava in the Záhorie Protected Landscape Area | |
| Location | |
| Countries | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Nová Lhota, White Carpathians |
| • elevation | 660 m (2,170 ft) |
| Mouth | Morava |
| • location | Kúty |
| • elevation | 152 m (499 ft) |
| Length | 79 km (49 mi) |
| Basin size | 745 km (288 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Štefanov |
| • average | 2.64 m/s (93 cu ft/s) |
| • minimum | 0.2 m/s (7.1 cu ft/s) |
| • maximum | 109 m/s (3,800 cu ft/s) |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Morava→ Danube→ Black Sea |
The Myjava is a river in Slovakia and briefly in the Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Morava River. It is 79 km (49 mi) long. Its drainage basin has an area of 745 km (288 sq mi).
It rises in the White Carpathians near the village of Nová Lhota in Moravia, but crosses the Czech-Slovak border shortly afterwards and flows in a southern direction until the town of Myjava, where it enters the Myjava Hills and turns west. Near Sobotište it flows into the Záhorie Lowland and turns south until the village of Jablonica, turning northwest and from Senica it flows west, passing through Šaštín-Stráže and finally flowing into the Morava River near Kúty.
Etymology
The stem myj- comes from Proto-Slavic *myjǫ (Slovak: mytie, podmývanie), meaning "to wash", "to undermine river banks".
References
- "Veterný park Myjava, lokalita Vesný vrch" (PDF) (in Slovak). April 2006. p. 18. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
- Závodný, Andrej (2007). "O názvoch riek a potokov na Záhorí" [About river and creek names in Záhorie]. Záhorie (in Slovak) (1). Archived from the original on 2017-05-10.
48°38′N 16°58′E / 48.633°N 16.967°E / 48.633; 16.967
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