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Danube (west and south), 32 kilometres (20 mi) along the Tamiš (east) and 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) along the Karaš (north). The land improvement system is complicated. Apart from canals and embankments, it includes 14 sluices, 11 pump stations, horizontal pipe drainage grid, etc. Almost all infrastructure was built by the early 1950s. In the 1990s, large areas of previously agricultural land, was redesigned administratively into the development land. Urban sections of Krnjača, Kotež, Borča and Ovča swelled, with new neighborhoods being built without any permits or new communal infrastructure. Since then, some of the wastewater sewage drained into the canals, which in time turned into the garbage depots. Part of the canals were, without any plans, conducted into the pipes, buried and structures were built on top of them.
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pollution, being filled with waste and losing their function. As a result, the flooding of the settlements, especially Krnjača, Kotež and Borča, became regular occurrence during the rainy season. In total, there are 900 km (560 mi) of drainage canals, the largest density of agricultural canals in Europe. Of that, 69 km (43 mi) are canals in the urbanized zones and 240 km (150 mi) are specifically built for the agricultural production in the PKB Beograd company.
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in the outskirts of Belgrade since the 2000s, by the 2020s the animals became most abundant in Pančevački Rit. Around some settlements, their howling became a normal, everyday occurrence. The hunting is legal, and some 160 to 200 jackals are hunted yearly, but they continued to spread in direction of
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The defensive embankments on all sides of the region are 90 kilometres (56 mi) long ("defense cassette"), as for six months a year, the waters of the surrounding rivers are higher than the land in Pančevački Rit. Some 53 kilometres (33 mi) are embankments along the
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across the Danube, which has been filled and elevated by the construction standards of the day, Pančevački Rit was drained by the canals and protected from the Danube and the Timiș by the embankments. As a result, almost all settlements in it are on wet ground and below the river level, which makes
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After 1945, a dense system of canals was dug in the region. They mostly serve for the draining of the marsh, with almost all natural streams being adapted into the draining canals. In time, due to the lack of proper maintenance and their parallel function as the sewage, they became synonymous for
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were spotted in the Krnjača area. Their number began to decline in the second half of the 19th century, almost disappearing by the 1870s. Last specimens in the Pančevački Rit area were spotted in 1900 in Pančevo and in 1902 in Belgrade. Reappearance after 120 years is a result of the successful
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By 2010, there were two major forested areas in the urbanized section of the region: Danube Forest, along the river's bank (9.72 km (3.75 sq mi)) and Rit Forest, in the inland (3.4 km (1.3 sq mi)). At the Timiș mouth, in the southeast corner of the Rit, there is a
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The lack of sewage system remained one of the largest problems of the urbanized sections of Pančevački Rit in the 21st century. Politicians continued making promises about the construction of the sewage grid, but by the early 2020s nothing happened. In 2021, it was estimated that some 100,000
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species and 176 species of birds and mammals. In 2020 plans were announced, which include construction of the footbridge across the river, beside two existing traffic bridges, which will connect the forest directly to the town of Pančevo.
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There are two official, unfenced hunting grounds in Pančevački Rit. One is named the same way, while the other is called simply Rit. The Rit is located near Padinska Skela, 15 km (9.3 mi) from Belgrade along the
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it has been gradually drained and almost half of it has been turned into a very fertile patch of land, suitable especially for cultivating grains and vegetables. It is managed by Serbia's largest agricultural company
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and Pančevački Rit is the location of the largest population of the wild boars on the territory of Belgrade, and probably in the entire Serbia. They are especially numerous in the area bounded by the
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After being almost uninhabited before 1945, today its population density is above average for Serbia as a whole, since some of the fastest growing suburbs of Belgrade (
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area; thus Pančevački Rit is commonly nicknamed Granary of Belgrade. Stockbreeding is also very intensive, as are fishery and hunting.
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forested area, the Pančevo Forest. It covers 3 km (1.2 sq mi) of marshland, with several dozen of
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them prone to floods, especially in combination with the chronically clogged drainage system.
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Today, there is a proposal that area again become a separate municipality with the name
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The area had its own municipality in 1955-1965 (until 1955 it had four municipalities:
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Many meandering canals and bogs have remained in the marsh: the slow streams of
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Its 400 km (150 sq mi) wetland was constantly flooded, but since
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Settlements and neighborhoods of suburban Belgrade in the Pančevački Rit:
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inhabitants live in the area, while there are 65,000 individual
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Neighborhoods of urban Belgrade in the Pančevački Rit:
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Small geographical area in south-western Banat, Serbia
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Animals bred in the facility include 1463: 786:Branka Vasiljević (8 September 2017), 769:"Променада" за силазак Панчева на реку 731:Branka Vasiljević (6 September 2021). 861: 695:Чисте се канали на левој обали Дунава 683: 828:[Jackals reached the city]. 637:which merged into one municipality, 150:. It is situated between the rivers 49:adding citations to reliable sources 20: 843:Branka Vasiljević (5 August 2018). 805:Branka Vasiljević (6 August 2020). 712:Branka Vasiljević (22 July 2021). 13: 14: 1502: 845:"Lovci u Beograd stižu porodično" 1437: 294:other Belgrade's neighborhoods. 25: 767:Olga Janković (23 June 2020). 693:Ana Vuković (27 August 2019). 338:Unlike the also marshy area of 36:needs additional citations for 1471:Geographical regions of Serbia 1448:(*) indicates location within 836: 817: 798: 779: 760: 756:. 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