Gacka

Gacka

Majerovo vrilo, a source of the Gacka River

The Gacka is a river located in the Lika region of central Croatia.

Because for a large part of its course it is a subterranean river, estimates of its length vary. The aboveground part has undergone substantial human intervention – before it was 32 kilometres (20 miles) long; now it is only 11 kilometres (6.8 miles) long.^[1] It has been regulated by man to flow into an aqueduct in Gusić polje (known as Tunel Gacka-Gusić Jezero^[2]) and then into the Adriatic Sea through the hydroelectric installation HE Senj near Sveti Juraj.^[1] Built in 1965, HE Senj takes inflow from both the Gacka and Lika rivers.^[3][4]

The river passes through karst fields and most notably the town of Otočac, and its headwaters are known as a popular locale for trout fishing.^[5][6]

See also

• Gacko Polje

References

1. Lika-Senj County Tourist Board, "Rijeka Gacka". Archived from the original on 2011-05-16. Retrieved 2011-04-26.
2. Tunel Gacka-Gusić Jezero (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
3. Hrvatska elektroprivreda, http://www.hep.hr/proizvodnja/osnovni/hidroelektrane/zapad/default.aspx Archived 2016-04-25 at the Wayback Machine
4. Hrvatska elektroprivreda, http://www.hep.hr/proizvodnja/en/basicdata/hydro/west/senj.aspx Archived 2016-05-24 at the Wayback Machine
5. Gacka.hr
6. ‘Trout Fishing in Yugoslavia Plumbs the Depths of Emotion’. nytimes.com MARCH 5, 1972

Further reading

• Bonacci, Ognjen; Andrić, Ivo (2008-12-01). "Karst Rivers Hydrology: Case of the Lika and Gacka (Croatia)". Acta Carsologica. 37 (2–3). doi:10.3986/ac.v37i2.146. eISSN 1580-2612.
• Lukač Reberski, Jasmina; Kapelj, Sanja; Terzić, Josip (2009-09-26). "An estimation of groundwater type and origin of the complex karst catchment using hydrological and hydrogeochemical parameters: A case study of the Gacka river springs". Geologia Croatica. 62 (3): 157–178. doi:10.4154/GC.2009.14. eISSN 1333-4875.

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