page_title: List of rivers of the Czech Republic
section_title: Drainage basins
hierarchical_section_title: List of rivers of the Czech Republic / Drainage basins
caption_attribution_description: Mapa dvou českých povodí
context_page_description: This is a list of rivers of the Czech Republic.
  Czech language distinguishes between larger and smaller watercourses; the respective nouns being řeka and potok.
  River names are mostly self-standing nouns and not accompanied with the generic word for river.
  In contrast, stream names mostly consist of two words because they contain an adjective. These two-word names are used as a whole, the word potok making an inseparable part of the name. There are also streams with one-word names akin to rivers but they are simply considered streams due to their small size. In such cases the word potok is optional and precedes the name.
context_section_description: As the Main European Watershed passes through the Czech Republic, there are three directions and principal areas of drainage (very roughly overlapping with historical territories of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia): 
  Almost 2/3 of the country is drained in NW direction through the Elbe into the North Sea. 
  Morava River flowing towards SE collects water from eastern regions of the Czech Republic and discharges into Danube which flows to the Black Sea. 
  The northeast and some northern portions of the 
  territory is drained by the Oder and its tributaries like Lausitzer Neisse into the Baltic Sea. The corresponding watershed tripoint with a marker for symbolic "roof of Europe" (50°8'55"N 016°46'57"E) is located at Czech-Polish border on Mt. Klepý near Dolní Morava in Králický Sněžník Mountains.
  The catchment area of the Elbe down to Czech-German border in Hřensko/Schöna covers 51,394 square kilometres (19,843 sq mi). This figure includes upper courses of some tributaries starting in neighbouring countries. The area solely within Czech borders is slightly smaller and this is the figure given in the following table, which shows Czech territory divided after drainage basins.
caption: Catchment areas of the Elbe-Vltava system (dark grey) and the Morava-Thaya (light grey) before they leave Czech territory. The remaining white areas in the northeast and north belong to the Oder and its tributaries while narrow white strip along southwestern border denotes some smaller direct tributaries of the Danube.
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