For the remaining 83 km, the river bends gently to the southwest.
Katlanovo is located on the highway Skopje-Thessaloniki, and even though some 25 km away from Skopje, a string of Skopje's fast growing suburbs is located along the highway (Jurumleri, Idrizovo, Petrovec), and if the city continues to grow, in some future it will reach Katlanovo and the banks of Pčinja.