Two rivers end here and a third begins — in a field named for the duke whose title gave Herzegovina its name.
Šćepan Polje obilježava upečatljiv spoj na kojem se rijeke Tara i Piva sastaju i stvaraju Drinu, čineći prirodnu raskrsnicu između Crne Gore i Bosne. Ovo malo naselje glavna je polazna tačka za rafting ekspedicije kroz kanjon Tare, najdublju klisuru u Evropi. Avanturistički turizam ovdje cvjeta, a rafting kampovi nude višednevne ture kroz netaknute brzake i pošumljene klisure.
Two rivers end, one begins
Length in kilometres
The Drina is nearly twice as long as both its parents together. Everything above Šćepan Polje is headwater — which is why a 57-metre dam ten kilometres downstream, on the Bosnian side, was fought to a standstill in 2005.
Soko grad, an hour’s walk above the confluence, was Herceg Stjepan’s principal seat. Widths are to scale.
A day at the confluence
The rafting clock, and a border on the side
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Wikipedia (sr): Soko grad (Piva), Plužine — the district joined Montenegro after the Congress of Berlin, 1878; Wikipedia (en): Piva, Tara River Canyon.
Na sastavcima Tare i Pive na krajnjem sjeverozapadu Crne Gore, tik uz granicu s Bosnom, gdje dvije rijeke daju Drinu. Od Nikšića je oko dva sata putem kroz kanjon Pive.
Zbog raftinga. Većina cjelodnevnih spustova kanjonom Tare završava na Šćepan Polju, a kampovi oko ušća baza su raftinške djelatnosti na ovoj rijeci. Gotovo sve ovdje postoji zbog toga.
Od aprila do oktobra. April i maj donose najviši i najbrži vodostaj od topljenja snijega i za sigurnije su učesnike; od juna do septembra je porodična sezona, s manjom vodom i toplijim vazduhom. Ture idu poludnevno ili cjelodnevno, uz smještaj u kampu.
Ostaci utvrđenja iz 14. vijeka na pivskoj strani, sjedište hercega Stjepana Vukčića Kosače — velikaša po čijoj je tituli Hercegovina dobila ime. Malo je toga očuvano, ali položaj iznad rijeka objašnjava zašto je tu podignut.
Može, na ušću je granični prelaz, na putu prema Foči i Sarajevu. Mali je i ljeti zna biti spor; provjerite radno vrijeme, kraće je nego na velikim primorskim prelazima.
U samim raftinškim kampovima — bungalovi i šatori oko ušća, uglavnom otvoreni samo u sezoni i obično u sklopu aranžmana. Za hotel treba u Plužine, sat vremena natrag kroz kanjon.
Ne — najbliži je aerodrom Podgorica (TGD), 143 km putem.
27,8 km putem, oko 1 h 3 min vožnje.
Britansko Ministarstvo inostranih poslova (FCDO) nema upozorenje protiv putovanja u Crnu Goru; svoje smjernice je posljednji put revidiralo 13. avgusta 2026. To je njihova procjena države u cjelini, ne naša i ne ocjena o ovom gradu, pa je pročitajte sami prije puta. Broj za hitne slučajeve u Crnoj Gori je 112.
Šćepan Polje u brojkama
the Tara and the Piva end here; the Drina runs 346 km from this point to the Sava
the Tara canyon upstream — 82 km long, the deepest in continental Europe
the confluence, and the lowest ground in the Piva region — which tops out on Bobotov kuk at 2,522 m
the year the Ottomans took Soko grad, an hour’s walk uphill from the water
Zagrađe, built by Herceg Stjepan below his own castle
MONSTAT censuses, Plužine municipality · UNESCO Durmitor inscription, 1980 · Wikipedia (en/sr): Drina, Tara River Canyon, Soko grad (Piva), Manastir Zagrađe
Najbliža mjesta mjestu Šćepan Polje, na svojim stvarnim položajima — Žabljak je udaljeno oko 29 km vazdušnom linijom.
Šematski prikaz. Položaji i udaljenosti mjereni su vazdušnom linijom, prema koordinatama koje imamo za svako mjesto; zbog planinskih puteva vožnja je duža. Podebljana linija označava obalu na dijelu koji prolazi kroz ovaj prikaz. Obala i Skadarsko jezero © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nekoliko sati
A confluence, a fifteenth-century monastery and an international border inside ninety minutes.
Cio dan
€69–85 a head buys the last eighteen kilometres of the Tara; the ruins above it cost nothing.
Vikend
Fifty kilometres of road covers a 220-metre dam, a reservoir 188 m deep and the highest peak in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Šćepan Polje, the Montenegrin bank
Najbolje za camps at the rafting finish — walking distance from the confluence, the monastery and the border post
The Drina bank, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Najbolje za more camps over the bridge; DMD sits four kilometres downstream of the confluence and lists €70 for 2026 for a day with two meals, from €100 with a night and full board
Plužine, 27 km up the Piva
Najbolje za the municipal town, above a reservoir 188 m deep instead of a river
Foča, 25 km down the Drina
Najbolje za the nearest town of any size, and the way in to Sutjeska National Park 20 km beyond it
Ko posjećuje Crnu Goru
Udio noćenja stranih gostiju, 2025.
MONSTAT · 2025
Popis stanovništva, opština Šćepan Polje
Plužine municipality has halved in twenty years — 4,272 people in 2003, 2,177 in 2023, and half of that loss came after 2011. Šćepan Polje is not counted on its own: it is a hamlet of Brijeg, the hill settlement at 1,027 m, which last appeared in a published census in 2003 with 91 residents. No figure since then belongs to the confluence itself, so this page prints none.
U međuvremenu — 2005
The Drina, ten kilometres down — the Buk Bijela dam is abandoned in April 2005 after protests. The proposed 57-metre wall, 93 MW, would have stood about 12 km above Foča, and the plans on the table were to flood a considerable part of the gorge behind it. The project returned in 2018 and lost its environmental permit in May 2019, when a court in Banja Luka ruled on a CEE Bankwatch complaint.
The Tara — the European rafting championships are held in Bosnia and Herzegovina that year, on the Vrbas and the Tara, and again in 2009.
Rome: Pope John Paul II dies on 2 April; over four million people travel to the Vatican.
Kyoto: the protocol enters into force on 16 February, eight years after it was signed.
“Written under Sokol.”
A Kosača charter, 1419
The charter by which Sandalj Hranić Kosača and his brothers ceded their half of Konavle to Dubrovnik records that it was written beneath the fortress — Soko grad’s earliest appearance in a document. Sandalj held it from 1392; Herceg Stjepan followed in 1435 and was styled “of Sokol”.
aprHigh water — April and May run hardest — the operator’s own phrase is “foamy and boiling rapids”
junThe optimal window — June to August is what the operators recommend: the safest water level and the fullest camps
sepGentler water — by September the spring high water has dropped — a milder ride, still wild
oktSeason ends — departures are listed all year but run mostly April to October; the camps and the ethno villages close
Lokalni tanjir
Piva is sheep country. The jezersko-pivska pramenka, a long-tailed landrace kept across Plužine, Žabljak and Šavnik, grazes ground that runs from this confluence at 433 m to Bobotov kuk at 2,522 m. Its milk gives skorup; the skimmed cooked milk left behind becomes prljo, a lean cheese matured 60 to 90 days in a sheepskin mješina. The meat goes under the sač — a cast-iron bell buried in embers — with kačamak or cicvara beside it.
Gdje The camps serve roast lamb or veal at lunch, €20 on top of the Montenegrin rafting price and inside the Bosnian camp’s day rate; for the plateau version, Pivska Vila at Nedajno, also in Plužine municipality, open May to October
Najbolje vrijeme: jun · jul · septembar
| Mjesto | Putem | Vožnja |
|---|---|---|
| Plužine | 27,8 km | oko 1 h 3 min |
| Žabljak | 71,9 km | oko 1 h 52 min |
| Raštovac | 74,9 km | oko 2 h 10 min |
| Šavnik | 84 km | oko 2 h 6 min |
| Podgorica | 135,4 km | oko 3 h 20 min |
| Kotor | 164,1 km | oko 3 h 54 min |
| Budva | 170,4 km | oko 4 h |
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