Lower Morava Valley

Lower Morava Valley

Highest point
Peak Žerotín (Zierotin)
Elevation 322 m (1,056 ft)
Dimensions
Length 83 km (52 mi)
Area 1,452 km2 (561 sq mi)
Geography
Location Dolnomoravský úval CZ IV1 A-2.png
Country Moravia
State Czech Republic
Range coordinates 48°34′N 17°49′E / 48.56°N 17.81°E / 48.56; 17.81Coordinates: 48°34′N 17°49′E / 48.56°N 17.81°E / 48.56; 17.81
Parent range Carpathians
Geology
Orogeny Alpide belt
Age of rock Neogene
Type of rock Gravel and Sand

The Lower Morava Valley Czech: Dolnomoravský úval /Jihomoravská pánev also, German: Nieder March Talsenke, Slovak: Dolnomoravský úval) is a geomorphological formation (special type of Valley) in the Moravia (Czech Republic). It is formed by the depression in the western Carpathian Mountains (Ždánice Forest, Kyjov Hills and Mikulov Hills) in the west and Bílé Karpaty and Chvojnice hills in the east. The drainage to the River Morava of the Danube basin runs finally to the Black Sea.

Including low watershed Dyje-Morava in Lanžhot.[2]

The Lower Morava Valley is a nordest part of Vienna basin (Carpathians) and the corridor to Napajedla Gate, Upper Morava Valley, Moravian Gate and later in final goal North European Plain (Poland- Lower Silesia - Galicia) since ancient times. Here ran one arm of the most important trade routes from southern Europe to the Baltic Sea (e.g. the Amber Road - eastern branch) and also routes from Moravia to Upper Silesia and Lesser Poland. The Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway (one part) built in 1840-41 from Břeclav (Vienna) to Přerov also traversed the Lower Morava Valley.

The Morava and Dyje rivers, Myjava (river), Chvojnice, Trkmanka, Kyjovka as well among others, finishing here in theirs floodplains,[3] and the towns include Břeclav, Hodonín, Uherské Hradiště, Valtice, Poštorná and Mikulčice.

Soil horizon - mainly sand, fluvisol and loess, partly chernozem .

See also

References

  1. ↑ Riparian forest Morava-Dyje confluence
  2. ↑ Functioning of South Moravian Floodplain Forests
  3. ↑ FIELD TRIP to the floodplain forests of the Lower Morava Biosphere Reserve

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