!!!Lavant, Fluss

Lavant, River, Carinthia, northern tributary of River Drau/Drava, 
64 km long, very high water quality in the upper part of the 
river; average water flow 12.4 m%%sup 3/%/Sec. near Krottendorf. 
The Lavant river rises on the Zirbitzkogel mountain (2,396 m, 
Seetal Alps) in Styria, flows through the eastern part of Carinthia 
between Saualpe mountains and Koralpe mountains and empties into River 
Drau near Lavamuend. The narrow upper Lavant valley, which includes 
the 10 km long gorge of the Twimberg Graben and extends till St. 
Gertraud (503 m), is rich in forests and grassland.  Reichenfels 
(809 m) is a former mining town. The open, densely populated 
lower Lavant valley is called the "paradise of Carinthia" due to ist 
mild climate and flourishing agriculture (wheat, fruit); Wolfsberg is 
the economic centre of the valley (463 m). One of the few 
cone-shaped basalt mountains of Austria is situated near St. Paul 
(412 m). The Lavant valley is part of the district of Wolfsberg 
(area 960 km%%sup 2/%, pop. 56,303), the Zeltweg- Lavamuend 
railway in the Lavant valley is connected with the Carinthian railway 
network via the Jauntal railway (St. Paul- Bleiburg). The Suedautobahn 
motorway runs through the Lavant valley from Twimberg to St. Andrae.


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