It is one of the most typical influent streams of Slovenia's karst terrain.

[4] It emerges again in the Mirna Peč Valley at Zijalo Spring.

It runs above ground until a sinkhole near Goriška Vas, where it sinks for the second and last time.

The third and last spring of the Temenica is located at Luknja pri Prečni.

It flows through the Zalog Karst Field and it joins with the Krka River as its largest tributary.