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Bënça

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

Bënça is a river in southern Albania and a major tributary of the Vjosa river system. Rising from the karst spring of Gurra e Progonatit on the Upper Kurvelesh Plateau, it flows for approximately 26 km (16 mi) before joining the Vjosa near Tepelenë. The river drains a catchment basin of 188 km² (73 sq mi), with a mean elevation of 954 m (3, 130 ft) and an average annual discharge of about 8.8 m³/s (310 cu ft/s).

Flows through: Albania.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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