Lower Morava Valley

Not to be confused with Morava Valley.

For other uses, see Morava (disambiguation).

Lower Morava Valley
Morava–Thaya confluence
Highest point
Peak	Žerotín
Elevation	322 m n.m.
Dimensions
Length	83 km (52 mi)
Area	1,452 km2 (561 sq mi)
Geography
Countries	Czech Republic, Slovakia
Range coordinates	48°50′N 17°07′E
Parent range	Carpathians
Geology
Orogeny	Alpide belt
Rock age	Neogene
Rock type(s)	Gravel and sand

The Lower Morava Valley (Czech: Dolnomoravský úval, Jihomoravská pánev; Slovak: Dolnomoravský úval; German: Nieder March Talsenke) is a geomorphological formation (special type of valley) in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

It is formed by the depression in the Western Carpathians (Ždánice Forest, Kyjov Hills and Mikulov Hills) in the west and Bílé Karpaty and Chvojnice Hills in the east. The drainage to the Morava River of the Danube basin runs finally to the Black Sea.

It includes low watershed Dyje-Morava in Lanžhot.

Geography

The Lower Morava Valley is a nordest part of Vienna Basin (Western Carpathians) and the corridor to Napajedla Gate, Upper Morava Valley, Moravian Gate and later in final goal North European Plain (Poland- Lower Silesia – Galicia) since ancient times. Here ran one arm of the most important trade routes from southern Europe to the Baltic Sea (e.g. the Amber Road – eastern branch) and also routes from Moravia to Upper Silesia and Lesser Poland. The Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway (one part) built in 1840–41 from Břeclav (Vienna) to Přerov also traversed the Lower Morava Valley.

The Morava and Thaya rivers, Myjava (river), Chvojnice, Trkmanka, Kyjovka as well among others, finishing here in theirs floodplains.

The largest towns in Lower Morava Valley are Břeclav, Hodonín, Uherské Hradiště, Staré Město, Dubňany, and Strážnice.

Soil horizon – mainly sand, fluvisol and loess, partly chernozem.

Gallery

• 
  Lower Morava Valley (olive green) down right
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  Riparian forest by the Morava–Thaya confluence
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  Lower Morava Valley landscape Hodonín surrounding
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  View from Náklo Hill (265 m) to the Lower Morava Valley landscape
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  View of the Lower Morava Valley from the Sady archaeological site

See also

• Vyškov Gate
• Outer Subcarpathia
• South-Moravian Carpathians
• Upper Morava Valley
• Dyje–Svratka Valley

Further reading

• (1993) Geografický místopisný slovník, Academia, Praha. ISBN 80-200-0445-9
• (1997) Plašienka, D., Grecula, P., Putiš, M., Kováč, M. a Hovorka, D.,: Evolution and structure of the Western Carpathians: an overview. Mineralia Slovaca – Monograph, Košice, p. 1–24.