The Mostonga (Serbian Cyrillic: Мостонга) is a river in northern Serbia, in Bačka region of the province of Vojvodina, a 70-km long left tributary to the Danube. Once 92 km long, due to the extensive corrections and channeling of the river to make it part of the other canals, the Mostonga is shortened, turned into a series of channels and popularly referred to as a river there is no more.
The Mostonga originates from the marshy bogs north of the ...
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The Mostonga (Serbian Cyrillic: Мостонга) is a river in northern Serbia, in Bačka region of the province of Vojvodina, a 70-km long left tributary to the Danube. Once 92 km long, due to the extensive corrections and channeling of the river to make it part of the other canals, the Mostonga is shortened, turned into a series of channels and popularly referred to as a river there is no more.
The Mostonga originates from the marshy bogs north of the town of Sombor in northwestern Vojvodina, near the Nenadići hamlet. It flows south (parallel to the Danube, the general direction of its whole course) and passes through the western outskirts of Sombor after which it is channeled for the first time, as a part of the Great Bačka canal.
The river continues south at the hamlet of Čičovi, but soon after, at the village of Prigrevica, the river bed is channeled again and for the next 25 km, passing next to the villages of Doroslovo and Srpski Miletić, the Mostonga is part of the main canal in...
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