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{{Infobox river
| name              = Mostonga
| native_name       = {{native name|sr|Мостонга}}
| image             = Mostonga.JPG
| image_caption     =
| source1_location  = [[Sombor]], [[Vojvodina]], [[Serbia]]
| mouth_location    = [[Danube]], at [[Mladenovo]], [[Vojvodina]], [[Serbia]]
| subdivision_type1 = Country
| subdivision_name1 = [[Serbia]]
| length            = {{convert|70|km|abbr=on}} (formerly {{convert|92|km|mi|abbr=on|disp=or}})
| source1_elevation =
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The '''Mostonga''' ([[Serbian language|Serbian]] [[Cyrillic]]: Мостонга) is a river in northern [[Serbia]], in [[Bačka]] region of the province of [[Vojvodina]], a 70-km long left tributary to the [[Danube]]. Once 92 km long, due to the extensive corrections and channeling of the river to make it part of the other canals, the Mostonga is shortened, turned into a series of channels and popularly referred to as a ''river there is no more''.
== Upper Course ==
=== Great Bačka Canal ===
The Mostonga originates from the marshy bogs north of the town of [[Sombor]] in northwestern [[Vojvodina]], near the Nenadići hamlet. It flows south (parallel to the Danube, the general direction of its whole course) and passes through the western outskirts of Sombor after which it is channeled for the first time, as a part of the [[Great Bačka Canal]].
=== Danube-Tisa-Danube Canal ===
The river continues south at the hamlet of [[Čičovi]], but soon after, at the village of [[Prigrevica]], the river bed is channeled again and for the next 25 km, passing next to the villages of [[Doroslovo]] and [[Srpski Miletić]], the Mostonga is part of the main canal in Vojvodina and Serbia, the [[Canal Danube-Tisa-Danube]] (DTD).
== Middle Course ==
=== Odžaci ===
Northwest of the town of [[Odžaci]] the Mostonga separates from the Danube-Tisa-Danube canal, but remains channeled itself. In this section the river makes a large bend (which begins already at Srpski Miletić and ends at [[Karavukovo]]), on a half of which it separates from the DTD.
=== Bački Petrovac-Karavukovo Canal ===
At this section, the Mostonga is directly connected by another canal to the Danube, beginning at the village of Karavukovo.
Also, after Karavukovo it becomes part of the [[Bački Petrovac]]-Karavukovo canal, and as such passes next to the village of [[Deronje]] and small town of [[Bač, Serbia|Bač]], where the Mostonga separates from other canals once more.
=== Final section ===
The Mostonga still continues to the south, splitting in two arms and creating a small delta on its confluence with the Danube. The river enters the marshy terrain after the village of [[Mladenovo]], west of the town of [[Bačka Palanka]], before it empties into the Danube in one of its large meanders surrounding the [[Šarengradska ada]] island.
The Mostonga belongs to the [[Black Sea]] [[drainage basin]].
== References ==
* Jovan Đ. Marković (1990): ''Enciklopedijski geografski leksikon Jugoslavije''; Svjetlost-Sarajevo; {{ISBN|86-01-02651-6}}
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[[Category:Rivers of Serbia]]
[[Category:Geography of Vojvodina]]
[[Category:Bačka]]
[[Category:Tributaries of the Danube]]