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Mura is a river, a subsidiary of the bigger Drava and Danube.
The Danube (Dunav) river has its source in the Austrian national park Hohe Tauern (Visoke Ture). The source is 1898 m above sea level. Its total length is 438 km, 295 km in Austria and 70 km as the border with both Austria and Hungary.
It also passes trough the Medimurje, (Madimurska zupanija), dividing Croaia from Slovenia. In the area of upper Međimurje, in the western part of the region, Mura does flood and change its course rather often moving slowly toward the noth on its left . Here, the biggest forrest along the river, the Murščak is located between Domašinec and Donji Hrašćan, (hrast is oak tree in Croatian language). Since the 4th ceentury BC, there were reports on floating mills powered by the rivers stream. The ancient know-how was later accepted by arriving Slavs, than by Ugars. Several decades ago, in the 20es and 30es many of them were operating along the river. The last one, in Mursko Sredisce was in use in the 1970es.
It ends near Legrad in the Podravina region of Croatia, where it flows into the Drava river. It is known to carry small quantities of gold, not enough to be suitable for exploitation today was the activity of local people since ancient times but acknowledged and encouraged to be exploit in 1772.
