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FROM STREAMS AND BROOKS TO THE LAKES On our way from Matica in Plitvicki Ljeskovac towards the springs of the Plitvice, it looks as if all the streams are running on the southeastern mountain slope of Mala Kapela towards the Lakes, feeding them with water. The Black river (Crna rijeka), springs underneath the vertical cliffs, 670 metres high, at the mountain foot under Kiko on one side, and Bijeli vrhovi (White crests) with a small village of Uvalica on the other side. It runs in the Ljeskovac direction through a water - channel which is over two kilometers long, while the black mosses cover its bed on a number of spots. The White river (Bijela rijeka), flows in from the western side of Ljeskovac, coming from a pass "Cudin klanac" which is 4 km long and where at 700 metres of altitude suddenly spouts out "from the earth", splashes and "boils" throwing out a white sand as a true karst spring.
Joining each other under the bridge in Plitvicki Ljeskovac, they run further as the Matica confluence to the first of the Plitvice Lakes. In Liman (or Limun) bay - part of Proscensko lake, a few kilometers long, a nameless stream with several permanent springs of changeable abundance flows in. There are several periodical stream flows on the western shores of Proscensko lake which are running down from a hill side of Proscansko crest.
The Brook (Rjecica) is a permanent stream which flows into "glibovita draga" of the Kozjak lake with very scattered tributaries, which bring water from eastern slopes of Bijeli vrhovi from the altitude of 780 m. About 6.5 km of its flow "feeds" approximately ten permanent springs, together with the confluence of Gilbotov potok, Ladeva and Petriceva draga and Poljancica. The streams Matijasevac, Jasenovac and Lilica potok are flowing into it from the westem side of Kozjak lake.
The Plitvica stream, 4 km long, is a part of Plitvice system, because its waters are creating the biggest Plitvice waterfall, 76 meters high , which falls down, above Sastavci at the end of Novakovica brod, into the rocky scar creating the beginning of the river Korana flow. The Plitvica stream springs as a strong karst spring under the sheer slopes, at 606 metres of altitude, close to a small village of Rodic Poljana at the foot of a big building called "Vila izvor". The Sartuk stream flows into the Plitvica stream under Rodic Poljana village.GALLERY OF WATER, WATERFALLS AND MURMUR  The Plitvice Lakes are divided into the UPPER LAKES (Gornja jezera) and the LOWER LAKES (Donja jezera). The UPPER LAKES are located in the area from Proscansko lake up to the lake Kozjak in a slight enlargement of dolomite base, and the LOWER LAKES in a limestone canyon which continues further under Sastavci as the River Korana canyon flow - 134 km long before reaching the mouth. The length of the Plitvice Lakes (according to the longitudinal cross - section presented by Eng. M. Petrik in 1952) is 8200m, and if we add to it Liman draga at Proscansko, Susanjska draga at Kozjak and the furthest point at Ciganovac lake - the longitudinal line going through all the lakes makes 9050 m.
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