Lower Morava Valley

The Lower Morava Valley (Czech: Dolnomoravský úval / Jihomoravská pánev also, German: Nieder March Talsenke, Slovak: Dolnomoravský úval) is a geomorphological formation (special type of Valley) in the Moravia (Czech Republic). 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 River Morava of the Danube basin runs finally to the Black Sea.

Not to be confused with Morava Valley.

Lower Morava Valley
Morava - Dyje confluence - riparian forest[1]
Highest point
Peak	Žerotín (Zierotin)
Elevation	322 m n.m.
Listing
Dimensions
Length	83 km (52 mi)
Area	1,452 km^2 (561 sq mi)
Geography
Country	Moravia
State	Czech Republic
Range coordinates	48°33′41″N 17°48′50″E
Parent range	Carpathians
Geology
Orogeny	Alpide belt
Age of rock	Neogene
Type of rock	Gravel and Sand

Including low watershed Dyje-Morava in Lanžhot.[2]

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 Dyje rivers, Myjava (river), Chvojnice, Trkmanka, Kyjovka as well among others, finishing here in theirs floodplains,[3] and the towns include Břeclav, Hodonín, Uherské Hradiště, Valtice, Poštorná and Mikulčice.

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

See also

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

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  Lower Morava Valley (olive green) down right
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  Morava Dyje confluence - riparian forest
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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

References

1. Riparian forest Morava-Dyje confluence
2. Functioning of South Moravian Floodplain Forests
3. FIELD TRIP to the floodplain forests of the Lower Morava Biosphere Reserve

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, s. 1 – 24.