Sipovo is a mountain area, intersected in the west-east direction by the Pliva River, whose length is about 30 kilometres of the air line, and in the south-north direction by the Janj River, whose length is about 35 kilometres of the air line. Besides these two rivers, the Sipovo area is also intersected by three small rivers – Sokocnica, Lubovica and Volarica. The area around the mouth of the Janj River to the Pliva River is both plain and hilly, with the height of around 440 metres above sea level. It gradually slopes up to become the mountain area whose highest mountains are Vitorog (1906 m) in the south, Lisina (1335 m) in the north, Gorica (1267 m) in the east, and Cardak (1452 m) in the west.
The urban area lies in the northern part of the town, in the basin of the aforementioned rivers. The 60% of the population of Sipovo lives in this urban area. In terms of traffic, two important roads stretch across Sipovo along the valleys of the rivers Pliva and Janj: Banjaluka-Sipovo-Kupres and Jezero-Sipovo-Glamoc. The relief of the area of Šipovo consists of the following relief constituents:
1. the mountain massifs (Vitorog, Plazenica, Ravna Gora, Gorica, Lisina, and Čardak);
2. plateaus (natpoljsko-čuklićka, podobzirsko-pribeljačka, and strojičko-podovska);
3. the valleys of the rivers Pliva and Janj
Panorama SipovaThe relief of the Šipovo region is mostly formed from sediment lime rocks and dolomite. The areas of lime are intersected by numerous tectonic fissures on which many forms of relief are formed (depressions, inlets, pits, and caves), the most famous cave being Vaganjska pećina (990 metres above sea level), decorated with countless stalactites and stalagmites.
In the geomorphologic sense, Šipovo is a mountain region whose average height is 800 metres above sea level. In the global climatic sense, Šipovo lies in temperately continental zone, with
