!!!March

March, River (Czech: Morava, derived from the Indogerman word "mori" = 
water), Lower Austria, northern tributary of the River Danube, 350 km 
long. Rises in the eastern part of the Sudetic Mountains (Czech 
Republic). On Austrian territory, long stretches of the river are 
rather polluted (quality rating 3); at the market town of Angern 
(Lower Austria) the average rate of flow is 109 m%%sup 3/%/sec. 
From the market town of Hohenau an der March (alt. 
155 m), where it unites with the River Thaya, the central line of 
the river constitutes the natural border between Lower Austria and 
Slovakia. Until 1918 the river marked the border to the Hungarian part 
of the Austrian empire. On Austrian territory the river and its 
surrounding meadowlands were made the Ramsar Wildlife Reserve (for 
water and wading birds); in Slovakia this reserve extends only to the 
latitude of the Austrian town of Marchegg.

!Literature
Distelverein (ed.), Ramsar-Konzept fuer die 
March-Thaya-Auen, 1994.


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