River
Bečva
62 km from source to mouth · Czechia.
CzechiaFlows into Morava
In numbers
Length
62km
Average flow
18m³/s
Basin
1,626km²
Drop
96m
from 286 m to 190 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
62 km of river and 28 stops on the way: 11 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmVsetínská Bečvaat 286 m
- 0 kmValašské Meziříčí22,568 people
- 0 kmPoličná1,769 people
- 0 kmVsetínská Bečvatributary
- 0 kmDolní Bečvatributary
- 1 kmBridge Juřinka - Krásno nad Bečvou
- 5 kmLešná2,159 people
- 6 kmJuhynětributary
- 10 kmHustopeče Nad Bečvou1,748 people
- 12 kmVeličkatributary
- 15 kmFootbridge over the Bečva River in Špičky
- 18 kmFootbridge Bečva 1
- 22 kmHranice17,969 people
- 23 kmWeir Hranice - Bečva km 38,7
- 27 kmFootbridge Na Rybářích
- 27 kmVodopád U Rybářů
- 34 kmLipník nad Bečvou7,955 people
- 37 kmOsek weir
- 38 kmJezernicetributary
- 39 kmOsek nad Bečvou1,358 people
- 42 kmRadslavice1,110 people
- 47 kmFootbridge U Tenisu
- 49 kmPřerov40,492 people
- 50 kmWeir Přerov
- 55 kmRokytnice1,532 people
- 59 kmTroubky1,993 people
- 60 kmTroubecký Bridge
- 61 kmTroubecké jezero1.1 km²
- 61 kmSkašovské jezero0.7 km²
- 62 kmMoravaat 190 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in the Czech Republic, tributary of the Morava
At the mouth it carries 18 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 143 seconds. It drops from 286 m to 190 m, 1.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,626 km², about the size of GP. 224,000 people live in it. Highest water: March; lowest: from December to February. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- PřerovLargest city on its banks · 40,492 people
- Leoš Janáček Airport Ostrava (OSR)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 55 km from the cityCar hire at OSR airport (Mošnov)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Bečva, month by month
Highest water: March
Lowest water: from December to February. Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 7.1 m³/s in the lowest month to 30 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
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The basin
Bečva: the basin in numbers
1,626 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 224,000people live in the basin
- 138/km²people per km²
- 484maverage altitude of the basin
- 770mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.2°Caverage air temperature
- 39%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 66% Forest
- 25% Cropland
- 18% Pasture
- 7% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Bečva: what you find on the way
- 27WeirsOsecký jez and 26 more
- 3WaterfallsHorní vodopád, Spodní vodopád
- 1Boat ramps
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Bečva in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
1waterfall on the riverCascadyas
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
26mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Vodopád U Rybářůkm 27
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Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Troubecké jezerokm 631.1km²
- Skašovské jezerokm 630.7km²
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Mountains at the source (26)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Huštýn9.8 km away749m
- Cáb15 km away841m
- Kamenárka14 km away · prominence 189 m862m
- Dlouhá14 km away · prominence 127 m859m
- Sochová15 km away · prominence 108 m741m
- Klenov8.4 km away678m
- Vrchhůra6.1 km away · prominence 163 m692m
- Čečetkov11 km away · prominence 103 m687m
18 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Bečva in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Morava
Austria388 km110 m³/sTributaries (7)
Also: Vsetínská Bečva, Dolní Bečva, Velička, Juhyně, Jezernice, Ludina, Žabník
Romania
Serbia
Croatia
Germany
MoldovaNearby
Rivers nearby
Poland
SlovakiaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q854608) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Cascadyas, Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
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