Danube near Gigen

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The Danube near Gigen is a stretch of the Danube River in northern Bulgaria, close to the village of Gigen, where it receives the waters of the Iskar River.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Danube floodplain near Gigen 1
Danube near Gigen canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geographical feature
river reach
basinCountry Bulgaria
Romania
belongsTo Lower Danube section
Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) inland waterway core network
BulgarianName Дунав при Гиген
climateZone temperate continental climate
continent Europe
country Bulgaria
countryOnLeftBank Romania
countryOnRightBank Bulgaria
downstreamFrom Danube near Oryahovo
flowsInto Black Sea
formsBorderBetween Bulgaria
Romania
hasBankType alluvial banks
hasEcosystemType large lowland river ecosystem
hasFloodplain Danube floodplain near Gigen
linked to: Danube near Gigen
hasLanguageOfToponym Bulgarian
hasPotentialUse hydropower (run-of-river, small-scale)
hasSedimentType sand and silt
hasUse fishing
inland navigation
irrigation
hydrologicalFeature confluence zone
isDownstreamConfluenceOf Iskar River and Danube River
linked to: Iskar River
isSegmentOf international river Danube
linked to: Danube
locatedIn Pleven Province
northern Bulgaria
navigationClass international waterway
nearbyArchaeologicalSite Ulpia Oescus
nearbyHistoricalRegion Moesia
nearbySettlement Gigen
nearbyTown Nikopol
Oryahovo
partOf Bulgarian Danube
linked to: Дунав

Danube River
linked to: Danube
partOfRiverSystem Black Sea basin
receivesInflowFrom Iskar River
riverKilometerApprox around km 610–620 of the Danube
riverMouthOf Iskar River
tributaryTypeOfIskar right-bank tributary
upstreamFrom Danube near Nikopol
watercourse Danube River
linked to: Danube

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Iskar River dischargesInto Danube near Gigen
Danube near Gigen hasFloodplain Danube floodplain near Gigen
linked to: Danube near Gigen