The Albanian section of the river is long with the drainage area of . There are no settlements on the river and it receives the Lumë river from the left (which also originates in Kosovo, from several rivers in the region. Finally, the White Drin reaches the town of Kukës where it meets the Black Drin and forms the Drin, which flows into the Adriatic Sea; thus the White Drin belongs to the Adriatic Sea drainage basin. The river is not navigable. The entire Albanian section (and part of the Kosovan) is flooded by the artificial Fierza lake ("see Drin controversy").