Characteristics
The Lepenac belongs to the Aegean Sea drainage basin, with its own drainage area of 770 km2/297 sq mi (695 km2/268 sq mi in Kosovo, 75 km2/29 sq mi in Macedonia). It is not navigable.
The Kačanik gorge is a route for the both road and railway Kraljevo-Priština-Skopje.
The river has a potential for hydroelectrical production, but even though being a part of the former Ibar-Lepenac Hydrosystem project, it is not much used, either for energy production or irrigation.
The Lepenac was a part of the artificial bifurcation, as the Nerodimka connected both Lepenac and Sitnica rivers via a canal, thus connecting Aegean and Black Sea drainage basins, but the canal was covered after the World War II.
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