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28-580: The park's right and left sides from the point of Crna Poda near the town of Mojkovac belong to the Municipality of Pljevlja . The canyon stretches from near Bistrica in Montenegro to Hum in Bosnia and Herzegovina , over 82 kilometers (51 miles). The last 36 kilometers form the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. The canyon is up to 1,300 meters (4,300 feet) deep. Tara River Canyon

56-799: A few short tributaries . The most important left bank tributaries are the Ljutica and the Sušica, while the most important right bank tributaries are the Vaskovaćka Rijeka and the Draga. The most important wellspring is the Bajlovića Sige, located on the right bank, contributing a few hundred liters per second. The water pouring from the Bučevica Cave falls into the Tara more than thirty metres high, and more than

84-454: A hundred and fifty meters wide. The roar from the cascades can be heard from the canyon peaks. Among the more than forty cascades, the most famous are Đavolje Lazi, Sokolovina, Bijeli Kamen, Gornji Tepački Buk and Donji Tepački Buk. Because of the quality of its water, and because of its unique ecological system, Tara River Gorge earned UNESCO recognition in 1977 as part of the "Man and Biosphere" program (“Čovjek i biosfera”) and entered into

112-464: A station on Belgrade–Bar railway . It is also at the intersection of the main road connecting Montenegro's coast and Podgorica with northern Montenegro and Serbia ( E65 , E80 ), and the road leading towards Žabljak and Pljevlja . Mojkovac is on the east/right bank of the Tara River , between the mountains of Bjelasica and Sinjajevina . The old mining village of Brskovo is nearby. Brskovo

140-823: A supplementary base consonant Đ : they are needed to note additional phonetic distinctions (notably to preserve the distinctions that are present in the Cyrillic script with which the Montenegrin language has also long been written, when it was still unified in the former Yugoslavia within the written Serbo-Croatian language). The alphabet also includes some digraphs built from the previous characters (that are considered as single letters for collation purpose): Dž , Nj , and Lj . The Montenegrin Cyrillic alphabet ( Montenegrin : црногорска ћирилица / crnogorska ćirilica or црногорска азбука / crnogorska azbuka )

168-538: Is a town in Montenegro in the northern region . It has a population of 2,506 (2023 census). Mojkovac is the centre of Mojkovac Municipality , which has a population of 6,824. The municipality of Mojkovac covers an area of 367 km (142 sq mi) and according to the number of inhabitants (10 015 / 2003g) belongs among the smaller municipalities in Montenegro. The city resort is located at an altitude of 853 m (2,799 ft). Its mathematical position

196-467: Is around 120, and the height of the snow cover reaches 150 cm, and in the mountains it is much more. Out of the total area of the Municipality of Mojkovac (367 km (142 sq mi)), 169.5 km (65.4 sq mi) or 46.2% is forests, 129.91 km (50.16 sq mi) or 35.4% is arable land, and 67.2 km (25.9 sq mi) or 18.4% is non-cultivated area. Since

224-760: Is determined by geographical coordinates: the northernmost point is located at 43005 'SGŠ, which is at the same time the lowest point of the municipality, located on the banks of the Tara River; the southernmost point is the Đevojačka glava on Sinjajevina at 42054 'SGŠ; the most eastern point is the Mokro Polje in Bjelasica on the 19040's IGD and the westernmost point is Pećarac peak at Sinjajevina on 19021 IGD. The territory of this municipality borders with municipalities: Kolašin , Šavnik , Žabljak , Bijelo Polje and Berane . The Municipality of Mojkovac encompasses

252-588: Is one of the deepest river canyons in Europe. Within Montenegro the canyon is protected as a part of Durmitor National Park and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site . The canyon features rocky and pebbly terraces, sandy beaches , high cliffs, and more than 80 large caves . The Tara River becomes the Drina at the point of confluence with the Piva near Hum, and is some hundred and fifty kilometers long at that point. In

280-717: Is one of the oldest mines in the region. Podgorica Airport is 105 km (65 mi) away, and has regular flights to major European destinations. Mojkovac is known for being the location of the eponymous Battle of Mojkovac . It is also known as the birthplace of the following people: Montenegrin Cyrillic The Montenegrin alphabet is the collective name given to " Abeceda " ( Montenegrin Latin alphabet ; Абецеда in Cyrillic ) and " Азбука " ( Montenegrin Cyrillic alphabet ; Azbuka in Latin ),

308-579: Is the official Cyrillic script of the Montenegrin language . It is used in parallel with the Latin script. Its first version was developed by Vojislav Nikčević in the 1970s who was a dissident of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and considered Montenegrin speech to be unique and deserving of consideration as a separate language from Serbo-Croatian. The modern version was brought into official use in early 2009 by

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336-653: Is the passage of the Strait (1,007 m (3,304 ft)), through which it enters the expanded and well populated Leposnica Valley, the tributaries of Lim. In Mojkovac, a moderate continental climate predominates, which is quite similar to Kolašin's climate. A hydrometeorological station has recently been set up in Mojkovac, so the future monitoring of climatic data will be more precise. The shield average 1,889 mm of rainfall annually, Mojkovac 1,664 mm, and Lower Dobrilovina 1,121 mm. The number of snow days per year

364-533: Is used for writing the Montenegrin language in Latin script . It uses most letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet , with the exception of Q , W , X and Y , only used for writing common words or proper names directly borrowed from foreign languages. Montenegrin Latin is based on Gaj's Latin alphabet , with the addition of the two letters Ś and Ź, to replace the pairs SJ and ZJ (so anachronistically considered as digraphs). С́ and З́, and could also be represented in

392-679: The Drina and possibly the Tara. A plan to construct dams in Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Drina river, has not been abandoned. One proposed dam at Buk Bijela village, some 15 kilometers downstream of border with Montenegro and the confluence of the Tara with the Piva river, the Buk Bijela Hydro Power Plant , although apparently abandoned in April 2005 after successful protests, was reconsidered as recently as 2018. A concession

420-590: The Latin script ; it is also much more widely used in all aspects of the day-to-day written communication in the country, in education, advertising and media. Efforts to create a Latin character-based Montenegrin alphabet go back to at least World War I , when a newspaper was published in Cetinje using both Latin and Cyrillic characters. The Montenegrin Latin alphabet ( Montenegrin : crnogorska latinica / црногорска латиница, crnogorska abeceda / црногорска абецеда or crnogorski alfabet / црногорски алфабет)

448-614: The writing systems used to write the Montenegrin language . It was adopted on 9 June 2009 by the Montenegrin Minister of Education, Sreten Škuletić and replaced the Serbian Cyrillic and Gaj's Latin alphabets in use at the time. Although the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets enjoy equal status under the Constitution of Montenegro , the government and proponents of the Montenegrin language prefer to use

476-598: The Balkans. Farming evolved alongside livestock. It takes place on small rural farms running along the left and right banks of the Tara River. They include potato, cabbage, beans, harbors and other continental vegetable crops, and most of the fruits are predominantly of plum, apple, pear, walnut and the like. The fact that 46.2% of the total territory is covered by forests speaks enough about the great wood resources that this municipality has. The forests of willow, oak, birch, beech, then fir, spruce, pine, and pestilence range from

504-587: The Tara River to the foot of the largest mountain peaks. Uncontrolled logging and exploitation threatens the forest wealth of this region. The economic development of the Mojkovo region after the Second World War was based on mining, wood and machinery industries. After more than six centuries in 1966, the Brskovo mine was opened, from which the exploitation of lead and zinc ore will be exploited until

532-546: The Upper and Lower Polje. The total length of the basin is 9 km (5.6 mi), and the width is 2.5 km (1.6 mi). In the canyon part of Tara, which belongs to the municipality of Mojkovac, larger extensions are around the mouth of Bistrica, Ravnik (3.3 km × 2.5 km (2.1 mi × 1.6 mi)) and around Gornja Dobrilovina and black black pine forest in Crni Podim. Four kilometers north of Mojkovac

560-509: The canyon has the steepest drop in elevation. It includes 21 out of 50 rapids in that part of the Tara. The rapids are Brstanovići, Pećine, Celije and Vjernovički. The longer rafting route covers 100 kilometres (62 mi). The route begins with the waterfalls of Ljutica and passes under the 541 feet high monumental bridge. Next is the old Roman road and the Lever Tara. "Funjički Bukovi" and "Bijele Ploče" rapids are followed by "Nisovo Vrelo",

588-418: The collapse of Brskovo (at the end of the 14th century), the inhabitants of Mojkovac region mostly dealt with agriculture. There was livestock breeding, and in the mountainous regions to this day, the primary economic branch remained. It was based on spacious mountain pastures. Mount Sinjajevina, with a land area of 120,000 ha in which 200,000 sheep can be planted, is one of the richest pasture cattle mountains in

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616-635: The deepest part of the canyon. Further is the bottom of Curevac mountain that reaches 1,650 metres (5,410 ft). In 2005 and 2009, the European Championships in Rafting were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Vrbas and Tara rivers. 43°12′32″N 19°04′40″E  /  43.209°N 19.0777°E  / 43.209; 19.0777 Mojkovac Mojkovac ( Montenegrin Cyrillic : Мојковац, pronounced [mɔ̌ːjkoʋats] )

644-492: The end of the 1980s, when it is closed. In 1951 KD "Vukman Kruščić", which in that period represented the center of the wood industry of Montenegro, started operating in Mojkovac. The head of the machine industry in this region is the factories "Tara-Precision" and "Tara-Aerospace". Local football team is Brskovo , which spent a season in the country's second tier , playing home games at the Gradski stadion . Mojkovac Town has

672-476: The extended Tara River valley, which divides the area of the municipality into approximately two equal parts. The Tara valley is a composite character: the gorges, basins and parts of the canyon are scattered. From the gorge, which is located north of the mouth of the Štitarička River, there is a Mojkovac valley, which passes from the Feratovo Polje, through Podbišće, Donje Selo and Mojkovac to the ravine of

700-491: The original alphabets as sj and zj , and сj and зj, respectively. Because these two glyphs already exist in the Polish alphabet , but must be created in Cyrillic by using combining characters, it provides an additional incentive to prefer Latin over Cyrillic. It also uses some Latin extended letters, composed with a basic Latin letter and one of two combining accents (the acute accent or caron , over C , S , and Z ), and

728-427: The park, the river has a mean fall of 3.6 meters/kilometer, with a host of cascades, offering whitewater between category 2 and 4. Extending over 158 kilometers, the Tara River welcomes contributions from 14 rivers, boasting 69 rapids and over 40 cascades, including the prominent Crna Vrela, Bijela Vrela, Djavolje Lazi, Sokolovina, and Bijeli Kamen. The river gets large quantities of water from abundant wellsprings and

756-472: The world's ecological biosphere reservations, protecting it under an international convention. The river, together with the Drina river, is Europe's main habitat and spawning ground for huchen ( Hucho hucho ). The governments of Montenegro and the Republika Srpska entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina had plans to flood a considerable part of the gorge, to construct one or more hydroelectric dams on

784-464: Was given to HE Buk Bijela company created in Foča in 2018. A September 2006 cooperation agreement between Slovenian company Petrol and Montenegrin company Montenegro-bonus specified construction of a 40–60 megawatt hydroelectric plant. The canyon is part of the Tara River rafting route. The one-day rafting route runs from Brstnovica to Sćepan Polje. It is 18 kilometres (11 mi) miles long. This part of

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