Obrh
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Washing clothes in Obrh Creek in 1962
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| Origin | Little Obrh Creek (Slovene: Mali Obrh)Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. and Big Obrh Creek (Slovene: Velki Obrh)Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Mouth | Sinks into Golobina Cave in the Lož Karst Field |
| Basin countries | Slovenia |
Obrh Creek (pronounced [ˈoːbəɾx]) is a losing stream that originates and terminates in the Lož Karst Field in the Municipality of Loška Dolina. It is a watercourse in the Ljubljanica watershed. It is created by the confluence of Little Obrh Creek (Slovene: Mali Obrh) and Big Obrh Creek (Slovene: Veliki Obrh); the latter is fed by two tributaries: Brežiček Creek and Viševek Brežiček Creek (Slovene: Viševski Brežiček). The confluence, at which point it is simply named Obrh, lies west of the village of Pudob.[1] In the northwest, limestone part of the karst field, Obrh Creek starts to drain into many sinkholes, and higher water flows into 850-meter (2,790 ft) Golobina Cave. The stream re-emerges at a spring 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) to the northwest on the southeast edge of the Cerknica Karst Field.[2][3]
Name
The name Obrh comes from the Slovene common noun obrh, referring to a powerful karst spring that usually surfaces below a cliff, creating a small deep lake that flows into a valley. The noun is originally a fused prepositional phrase, *ob vьrxъ 'at the summit' (i.e., at the highest point of the watercourse).[4]
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- ↑ Komac, Blaž, Karel Natek, & Matija Zorn. 2008. Geografski vidiki poplav v Sloveniji (= Geografija Slovenije 20). Ljubljana: ZRC, p. 85.
- ↑ Gunn, John (ed.). 2004. Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, p. 430.
- ↑ Shaw, Trevor R. 2008. Foreign Travellers in the Slovene Karst: 1486–1900. Ljubljana: ZRC, p. 32.
- ↑ Snoj, Marko. 2009. Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 287.
