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For the remaining 15 km (9 mi), the
Lepenac flows through the low Skopje valley, part of the composite valley of the river Vardar. Immediately entering the Greater Skopje area, it receives several small streams from the left, from the Skopska Crna Gora mountain. It passes next to the ruins
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The river has a potential for hydroelectrical production, but even though being a part of the former Ibar-Lepenac
Hydrosystem project, it is not much used, either for energy production or irrigation.
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are located in the gorge. After Hani i Elezit, the
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in the north, next to the villages of Biti e Poshtëme, Gotovushë, Brod and
Doganaj, where the river makes an elbow turn to the south, entering the
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771:Geography of Prizren District
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745:Categories
626:(111.5 km)
623:White Drin
525:References
479:Aegean Sea
304:Macedonian
283:Aegean Sea
262:Basin size
219:21°22′59″E
216:42°00′46″N
76:Macedonian
658:(76.8 km)
515:Black Sea
499:-Skopje.
438:limestone
385:Brezovica
377:Suva reka
107:Countries
695:Nerodime
642:(109 km)
634:(110 km)
497:Pristina
493:Kraljevo
450:Seçishtë
411:Nerodime
381:Jazhincë
296:Albanian
102:Location
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639:Lepenac
631:Sitnica
511:Sitnica
415:Kaçanik
402:field.
365:Prizren
346:river.
331:Lepenac
326:Лепенац
322:Serbian
313:Лепенец
300:Lepenci
292:Lepenac
91:Serbian
84:Лепенац
69:Лепенац
54:Lepenci
29:Lepenac
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400:Kosovo
389:Štrpce
355:Kosovo
350:Course
344:Vardar
336:Kosovo
279:Vardar
254:Length
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191:Vardar
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