The shortest river in the world - search on the map. Reprua River in Abkhazia What is the shortest river on earth

The Amazon is considered to be the longest river in the world. Many people have heard of the Amazon. Its area is equal to the area of Australia. But there is also the shortest river on the globe. Despite their modest size, rivers in this category are very clean and almost never dry out thanks to underground springs.

American record holders

Dee River. Located in the USA in Oregon. The length of the Dee River is 37 meters. Despite its length, the Dee River plays an important role in connecting Devils Lake with the Pacific Waters and is located within the same city - Lincoln City. The government of this US state recognized the Dee River as the shortest river in the world. By the way, not only Oregon authorities thought so. Until the 90s, this river was the record holder of the Guinness Book of Records (again with the mark as the shortest river in the whole world).

The Roe River flows in the state of Montana; according to unconfirmed reports, one of its branches is only 17 meters long. This river flows into the deep Missouri.

Rivers of Europe

Covasselva. The length of the river is 20 meters. The river is located in Norway (on the island of Hitra). The length of this river depends on the tides.

Aril. The length of this Italian river is 175 meters. The river is fed by powerful underground springs. Aril is considered the smallest and shallowest river in Italy. However, despite its length, there are several mills on the territory of the river. There are as many as three bridges across the river itself.

Bane. Located in England. The length of the river is almost 4 meters. Bane is the shortest river in Foggy Albion. In 2011, a hydroelectric power station was built on its territory. The station serves about 40 homes.

Godina. The Serbian River is 365 meters long. Locals call Godina “the one-year river.” And all because its length is equal to the number of days in one year. This river was also honored to be included in the Guinness Book of Records. There are three bridges across Godina. The air in this area is fresh and clean even in hot weather. The flow of the river, as a rule, does not change. The small river is decorated with a waterfall located at its end. There is a cozy restaurant located near the waterfall.

Ombla. The river is located in Croatia. The length of Ombla is only 30 meters. At the same time, Ombla performs an honorable task. This river supplies the nearest town with drinking water. In the future they plan to build a hydroelectric power station there.

Absolute record holder

Reprua. I wanted to talk about this river in more detail. It is she who is the first to be cited as an example during conversations on the topic of the shortest rivers in the whole world. Let's look at some of the features of this river.

The Reprua River is located in Gagra. This resort town of Abkhazia annually receives hundreds of thousands of tourists. This influx of guests is not surprising. Gagra is famous for its nature, excellent climate, seas and beaches. In other words, tourists have something to see and a good place to relax. It is in these parts, two kilometers from the city border, that the Reprua flows.

To date, it has not been possible to determine the exact length of this small river. According to some Abkhaz book sources, the length of the river is about 18 meters. How short this river is can be illustrated by the following example. The length of a standard swimming pool is 25 m. The length of Reprua is 18. It turns out that this river is shorter than the simplest pool. The name of the river has several meanings. One of them is “submarine water”.

The legend of the Abkhaz river

The shortest river in the world has its own history, which is shrouded in great mystery. Unfortunately, little is known about this river. The first mention of this river in scientific publications dates back to the beginning of the 20th century, the time when the climate station in Gagra was opened. It has not yet been possible to find out who discovered this river and when it happened. But there is a real fairy tale story about the name of the river.

According to legend, in the distant past there lived an underground spirit near the Black Sea. He had three daughters and one son. The spirit was forging special magic swords. Each sword had magical powers. The warriors, thanks to their swords, defended the city and the Gargan Pass from enemies. The son of the spirit also fought. However, the spirit soon died. Swords stopped being forged, and the city was captured by enemies. The son of the spirit was killed, and they decided to destroy his daughters in the cave. The entrance to the cave was blocked with stones, and the girls could not get out of there. Sitting in the cave, they cried bitterly. From their tears the river Reprua was formed.

What is known is that the Reprua flows from the deepest cave. Therefore, the water in the river is quite cold. In terms of temperature, it is equated to spring water. However, the stones located near the river delta are overgrown with moss. In the caves themselves, water is formed by melting snow in the mountains. Despite its modest size, Reprua supplies the residents of Gagra with drinking, environmentally friendly water.

After careful research, experts assigned a high degree of purity to this river. But Reprua has not yet been included in the Guinness Book of World Records. Perhaps this omission will be corrected in the near future.

There are many short rivers in the world. As you can see, each of them is beautiful in its own way and benefits its country and the entire society in due measure.

Reply from N[guru]
Reprua is a river in the Gagra region of Abkhazia, which has the best reason to claim the title of the shortest river in the world. its length is only 18 meters. It is a powerful outlet of an underground karst river, which is fed by water accumulating in deep caves, including the deepest cave in the world, Krubera-Voronya.
As the ancient Abkhaz legend says, Reprua are the tears of the daughters of the underground spirit. The spirit had three daughters and one son, the spirit forged armor and weapons that made the Abkhaz warriors invincible. After the spirit died, there was no one to make weapons and the son, along with other warriors, died in battle with the enemies. Enemy warriors blocked the passage from the three caves in which the sisters lived. Realizing that their brother was dead, the sisters began to cry and the river Reprua and others began to flow from the entrances.

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Reprua, a river whose length is only 18 meters

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Answer from Adelina Gromova[active]
In ancient times, there lived in the Caucasus an underground spirit who forged magic swords that brought good luck in battle. Many times warriors saved Abkhazia with their swords. But the hour of death of the spirit came, and there was no one left to forge swords... the enemies came, they killed the only son of the spirit, and walled up the three daughters alive in the deepest cave... the girls cried so bitterly and for a long time that their tears became streams and washed the exit from the cave with three streams : this is how the rivers Reprua, Anykhamtsa and Bagerepsta appeared.
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Bagerepsta and Anyyhamtsa are the two coldest rivers on the entire Caucasian coast. And Reprua is the shortest, smallest river in the world.
Reprua is a cold river, it originates in deep mountain caves, and the waters of the river are formed from melting snow. The length of the river is only 18 meters, the water in it is so clean that you won’t find anything like it in any spring...
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Actually, the word “reprua” translated from the Abkhaz language means “jumping”. The word reprua also refers to the appearance of fresh water on the surface of the sea (submarine waters).
Facts: Two very short, small rivers flow in the United States. They are called Dee River and Row River. Their length is 37 and 61 m. Both of these rivers are listed in the Guinness Book of Records.

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The Kurkiyoki River in Northern Ladoga region is also one of the shortest: its length is 300 meters

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Answer from Mikhail Abramov[newbie]

The longest city in Abkhazia is the resort town of Gagra. A shortest river in the world flows near this city, just two kilometers from its border. This is the Reprua River, which flows into the Black Sea.

The exact length of this river is not determined. For example, in the book “The Abkhazian Peacemaker” it is indicated that the length of the Reprua River is 18 meters. But other data can be found. The length of the river is 40 meters, writes one Abkhaz journalist in her article.

Even 40 meters is very little for a river. You can compare it with other objects to get an idea of how much it is. For example, a swimming pool is 50 meters long. If we assume that the length of the river is 18 meters, then it turns out that shortest river in the world it is more than 2 times shorter than a swimming pool. 10 meters is the width of the Reprua River.

And the city of Gagra, among other things, is also known for the culinary abilities of its residents. Many people from this town work as chefs at popular restaurants.

But in order to start working in another country, you first need to have your chef’s diploma translated. And here specialists from the “My Translation” company can come to the rescue, who, in addition to simple translations of diplomas into English and other languages, can also make a notarized translation of the diploma, provide apostille and nostrification services.

Typically, large geographic features receive increased attention. As a rule, everyone knows what a given object is, when it was discovered and its history. Small objects are another matter. Their story is shrouded in mystery. Little is known about Reprua either. It is unknown when this short river was discovered, but one can easily say what it is like at the moment.

Let's start with the ancient Abkhaz legend.

A long time ago, on the coast of the Black Sea, there lived an underground spirit with his children - a son and three twin daughters. The spirit was busy forging swords that had powerful power. With these swords, his son and other warriors defended the Gagra pass, through which the enemy could attack Abkhazia. Such a sword had magical powers: everyone who picked it up became invincible. After some time the spirit dies. There is no one else to forge swords. And it so happened that Abkhazia was attacked by an enemy without powerful swords, the army failed, and the son of the spirit was killed. The daughters of the spirit were left alone. The conquerors planned to destroy the three sisters and blocked the entrance to the cave with huge stones, from where the girls came out to the ground. The sisters grieved and cried for a long time. There were so many tears that they collected in streams and made their way through the stones. This is how 3 rivers appeared: Bagerepsta, Anykhamtsa and Reprua.

The first two rivers flow next to Reprua. And by the way, moving away from the legend, these rivers are always mentioned together and this is not by chance. But the fact is that throughout the entire territory of the Caucasian coast, and perhaps throughout the entire Black Sea, these rivers are considered the coldest. And Begerepsta translated means “cold river”. Why throughout the entire Black Sea coast? All sources say that it is on the Caucasian coast, but......

A small part of the water in the Reprua River comes from a canal that flows from the deepest cave in the world - Krubera-Voronya.

That's why it's a legend to be beautiful, but in reality Reprua is nothing more than an outlet of cave waters, and the water in the cave is formed after the snow melts in the mountains. There are many mountains, and even more caves, no one knows exactly how many caves are located on the territory of Abkhazia, no one has yet been able to count their number, there is no such “dense” accumulation of caves in any country in the world. Of course, if we take France, for example, there are many caves of different sizes throughout the country, but it is the largest country in Europe in terms of territory, and Abkhazia is several times smaller. The mountain rivers of Abkhazia can compete for the title of “The Coldest Waters in the World”; the temperature on the surface and in the cave is not much different, but the water temperature fluctuates greatly.

The cold water of Reprua, in its purity and temperature, is compared with spring water (despite the fact that the stones with which the entire river delta is littered are overgrown with mosses), enters the Gagra water supply system. In the United Arab Emirates, water taken from these rivers was given the highest degree of purity.

What is Reprua?

The translation of the word “reprua” from Abkhazian is “jumping”. However, it is known that this name is not borne by one river, but by an entire natural complex, and the name does not carry any meaning.

The name is “a manifestation of fresh water on the sea surface” or “submarine waters”, which is why the Abkhazians call it “reprua”. The exits of some karst caves (caves with many water passages) are located in the sea, approximately at a depth of 5-10 meters, so fresh water reaches the surface (fresh water is easier than sea (salt) water). The reprua process can be seen in a simple example: we fill the bathtub with water, turn on the “rain” in the shower and lower it under the water, directing the stream upward.

Excerpt from the Guinness Book of Records

The USA is home to the 2 shortest rivers in the world: Row River And Dee River. The Roe River is 61 meters long and flows into the Missouri. The Dee River is 37 meters long and connects the Pacific Ocean and Devils Lake.

One day, while vacationing in Abkhazia, we came to a small stream. Thinking it was a mountain spring, I tried to drink some water from it. However, the guide hastily stopped me and called me over. That's how I found out that I was near the smallest river in the world, and drinking from it would be a stupid mistake.

Reprua - this is the name of this river, located near the most famous resort of Abkhazia, the city of Gagra. Its length is only eighteen meters. That is, you can go around the entire river in twenty to thirty seconds.

The width of this river does not exceed ten meters, and its depth is about thirty centimeters at its deepest point. It’s clear that we didn’t swim in it - it’s impossible on the one hand, and on the other hand, the water in this river is unusually cold.

Naturally, I asked myself: why does this stream-like stream of water have the status of a river? And I found out that this geographical object really has all the necessary characteristics:

It has a mouth, because through its eighteen meters it flows into the Black Sea.
It has a source - Reprua originates in one of the karst caves.
Functions of the river. In fact, it is the source of water in Gagra and nearby cities.

So, you can talk as much as you like about the advisability of calling Reprua a river, but the fact remains that at the moment it is the smallest such object in the world.

But I added to my list of visits, and was pleased: I splashed in the cold water and took a photo near the cave.

The Reprua River, only 18 meters long, is located just two kilometers from the city of Gagra. And it flows into the Black Sea, and flows out from the foot of the mountain and crosses the beach strip with its flow. Although the river is small, it is marked on geographical maps.

And it deserves it because it provides water intake for the entire Gagra. Reprua is fed by the waters of the high-mountain caves of the Arabica plateau and the deepest cave in the world, Krubera-Voronya. And the water in the cave is formed after the snow melts in the mountains.
The mountain rivers of Abkhazia can compete for the title of “The coldest waters in the world”; the temperature on the surface and in the cave differs little, but the water temperature fluctuates greatly.

The cold water of Reprua, in its purity and temperature, is compared to spring water (despite the fact that the stones with which the entire river delta is littered are overgrown with mosses). The water taken from these rivers was given the highest degree of purity.

An ancient Abkhaz legend is associated with this river.

A long time ago, on the coast of the Black Sea, there lived an underground spirit with his children - a son and three twin daughters. The spirit was busy forging swords that had powerful power. With these swords, his son and other warriors defended the passage through which the enemy could attack Abkhazia. This sword had magical powers: everyone who picked it up became invincible. After some time the spirit dies. There is no one else to forge swords. And it so happened that Abkhazia was attacked by an enemy without powerful swords, the army failed, and the son of the spirit was killed. The daughters of the spirit were left alone. The conquerors planned to destroy the three sisters and blocked the entrance to the cave with huge stones, from where the girls came out to the ground. The sisters grieved and cried for a long time. There were so many tears that they collected in streams and made their way through the stones. This is how three rivers appeared: Bagerepsta, Anykhamtsa and Reprua.

The first two rivers flow next to Reprua. These rivers are always mentioned together and this is no coincidence. But the fact is that throughout the entire territory of the Caucasian coast, and perhaps throughout the entire Black Sea, these rivers are considered the coldest. And Begerepsta translated means “cold river”.

The material from Wikipedia says that the Reprua is the shortest river in the world. Located in the Gagra region of Abkhazia. But the Guinness Book of Records notes that the United States is home to the two shortest rivers in the world: the Roe River and the Dee River. The Roe River is 61 meters long and flows into the Missouri. The Dee River is 37 meters long and connects the Pacific Ocean and Devils Lake.
But we will stand on the fact that Reprua is the most, most...

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