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The stream was mostly conducted underground in the 1970s. Before it was channeled, the stream often flooded the area of Dušanovac and Marinkova Bara during the heavy rains, as it was where it received two tributaries, Duboki potok from the north and Kumodraški potok, from the south.
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Though undistinguished in terms of hydrology, the stream was important in Belgrade geography, while in architecture it has been described as the "key topology character of Belgrade's history". Its valley serves as the route for the highway. A small bridge
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could be constructed, and for the building of Belgrade's central railway station. After the works were completed, the area around Mokroluški potok was left as a steep, elongated cut in the ground and so was given its present name
349:. It is one of the 40 rivers, streams and creeks that flow or used to flow through Belgrade, but the majority of them are conducted underground into the city sewage system which is also the case with Mokroluški potok. 408:. The area in the lower valley of the now underground stream was used for digging earth and gravel which were used to cover and drain the swamps on the Sava's right bank, so that neighborhoods of 452:
hill descended to the streams left bank. Up to the 19th century, the slope was known as Zamastir. Czech émigré Heinrich Smutek, arranged a large estate (with a
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where the stream is conducted underground for the first time. The channeled mouth of the stream is still visible under the
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After an underground flow of about one kilometer, the stream resurfaces in the neighborhood of
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and marking the edge of the city in its next spreading to the south, further from the
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highway (constructed 1967-74). After it passes the cemetery of the neighboring
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The Mokroluški potok originates in Belgrade's eastern neighborhood of
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river. During its entire course, it runs through the urban section of
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Channeled mouth of the Mokroluški potok into the Sava, under the
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At Mostar, before flowing into the Sava, northern slopes of
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Gazela Bridge
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Veliki Mokri Lug
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Sava
Belgrade
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44°48′5.2632″N 20°26′30.7644″E / 44.801462000°N 20.441879000°E / 44.801462000; 20.441879000
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