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18-579: Leštane is located 15 km east of Belgrade, originally further away from the major roads. As the settlement expanded, it reached both major Smederevski put and Kružni put roads and, in the last decade, expanded even further. It is located at the mouth of the Kaluđerički Potok into the Bolečica river. The name of the settlement is one of the variants for hazel grove in the Serbian language. Leštane

36-564: A total population of 35,000 and is a route to important roads. Bolečica originates in the northern, low Šumadija region, between two "Belgrade mountains", Avala and Kosmaj , on the slopes of the Begaljica Hill, at an altitude of 105 meters. Originally, it flows to the north along the eastern slopes of the Avala, crossing between the municipalities of Grocka and Voždovac , next to the villages of Vrčin and Zuce , where it receives

54-731: Is bridged by the Kružni put in Leštane and by the Smederevski put , near the crossroad with Kružni put . Works on building additional 3 kilometers of the road from that point to the river's mouth into the Danube are halted in 2006. However, this section of the Bolečica's valley is projected route of the future modern highway which should begin at the Bubanj Potok highway crossroad and continue through

72-463: Is one of the fastest growing suburbs of Belgrade, especially since the mid-1970s, experiencing an annual growth of over 10% in the 1971-1981 period. It is still classified as a rural settlement (village), though agriculture is no longer an essential branch of the economy. Population of Leštane: Leštane is more crowded than its municipal seat, Grocka. Thousands of people migrated to the settlement from southern Serbia and especially Kosovo and Metohija in

90-431: Is the eastern extension of Leštane, located on both the Smederevski put and Kružni put roads. As its name says, it is a new settlement, having been mainly developing since the 1990s, with many small workshops, groceries, and residential houses. It connects, in an urban sense, Leštane with Kaluđerica (and thus with Belgrade), Vinča and Boleč . In the 2000s, Leštane began expanding to the west, opposite Novo Naselje, in

108-514: The Vranovac creek from the right and enters the valley of Bubanj Potok where it marks the eastern border of the woods of Stepin Lug , turns to the north-east through the southernmost tip of the municipality of Zvezdara (for some 300 meters) and receives two more creeks from the left, Bubanj Potok and Zavojnička reka . Bolečica continues through the southern section of Leštane , where it receives

126-592: The 1970s, and after the exodus of Serbs from Kosovo and Goranci in 1999, new thousands settled in Leštane, so it is estimated it might have reached up to 15,000 inhabitants today. Like most of the booming suburbs of Belgrade, Leštane has been expanding uncontrolled and without any urbanistic plans. This causes today's big communal problems the settlement is experiencing, especially the sewage system, waterworks and transportation, as streets are curved, without any order and, in many cases, without pavement. All of this brings about big problems in settlements during rain. Until

144-463: The Bubanj Potok-Leštane section. For that purpose, the river bed has been concreted and moved to the west, so the river is now further away from Boleč, which was named after the river. It enabled for a usually minor water flow to conduct abundantly larger quantities of water during heavy rains and floods. However, the final 3 kilometers of the river, through Vinča, has not been channeled, so with

162-473: The creek of Kaluđerički potok from the left and forms the border between the four suburbs area: Leštane, Boleč , Ritopek and Vinča (where it receives the creek of Makački potok from the left), where it empties into the Danube by a small estuary at an altitude of 68 meters, just east of Belo Brdo , the archeological find of the Vinča culture . The majority of the Bolečica's flow has been channeled, mostly in

180-489: The direction of Bubanj Potok . Bole%C4%8Dica The Bolečica ( Serbian Cyrillic : Болечица ) is a short river in north-central Serbia , a 12 km-long right tributary to the Danube . During its entire flow it runs through the suburban section of Belgrade and despite being short it flows through the three Belgrade's municipalities, next to the half dozen of suburbs of Belgrade (giving its name to one of them) with

198-598: The eastern parts of Belgrade, which was severely damaged during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. In the 2000s, the area from the crossroad of Smederevski put and Kružni put , along the Bolečica River, was designed as an industrial zone ( Industrijska zona Leštane ). So far, several hangars, construction and transportation companies, a parquetry factory, and a few smaller facilities (medicine factory, etc.) have been established, while some significant areas are still in

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216-404: The geographers tend to call the river Leštanska reka ( Cyrillic : Лештанска река , lit.   ' Leštane river ' ) but the name has not been accepted officially neither among the local population. A short valley of Bolečica, which can be divided in two sections, Vrčin-Bubanj Potok and Bubanj Potok- Leštane-Vinča is a natural route for several important transportation lines: Bolečica

234-458: The growth of the Danube's level, the water overflows the estuary preventing the waters drained by Bolečica to flow into the Danube (inverse flow). As a result, during high levels, Bolečica overspills itself, sometimes causing the traffic breach on a major roads that cross over the river, like Kružni put and Smederevski put . Due to the much larger impact the river has on Leštane than it has on Boleč, through which it basically doesn't flow, some of

252-484: The late 1970s and early 1980s, the economy of Leštane was based mainly on agriculture. Still, since then, a boom in privately owned small companies boosted the economy and attracted a new population to migrate to the settlement. Some significant economic facilities are a shoe factory, an outpost of the National Customs Service, construction company Geosonda and a power relay station, a major one for

270-488: The late 1990s was clear brook with small fishes and frogs, but today is dead, murky and full of waste deposits and not suitable even for the industrial use anymore. In March 2019, the environmentalists described the Bolečica as "less of a watercourse, more of a sewage watershed". Grocka Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include

288-550: The process of construction. A small open farmer's market developed in the 1980s along the Smederevski put , next to the Vinča community health center . It expanded a bit in time, but the communal situation surrounding the market worsened. In February 2019, it was announced that a new market would be built. It will be a fully closed, energy-efficient, one-storey building with a total floor area of 1,670 m2 (18,000 sq ft). Novo Naselje (Cyrillic: Ново Насеље ; Serbian for new settlement )

306-413: The projected bridge Vinča- Omoljica into the province of Vojvodina . Despite frequent discussion by the city government on this subject, no projects have been accepted so far. The name of the river means literally "(the water) that cures the illness" (Serbian: bol , ilneess, pain and lečiti , to heal, to cure). Today however, the river is highly polluted, becoming merely an open sewage canal. Dumping of

324-404: The sewage begins already at Vrčin , and the sewages of all the adjoining settlements, even much larger and distant Kaluđerica . As of March 2007, the projected sewage collector is still not finished. In addition, Bolečica flows through two emerging industrial zones, those of Bubanj Potok and Leštane. The dumping of industrial waste contributed to the demise of the wildlife in the river, which until

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