River
Bzyb River
110 km from source to mouth · Georgia.
GeorgiaFlows into Black Sea8th longest in Georgia
In numbers
Length
110km
Average flow
97m³/s
Basin
1,510km²
Drop
1,378m
from 1,378 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
110 km of river and 6 stops on the way: 5 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,378 m
- 38 kmPskhu1,659 people
- 81 kmGegatributary
- 96 kmAkvara1,164 people
- 98 kmBzipi4,820 people
- 101 kmAt’idzt’a1,785 people
- 103 kmIpnari5,166 people
- 110 kmBlack Seaat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Georgia
At the mouth it carries 97 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 26 seconds. It drops from 1,378 m to 0 m, 13 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,510 km², about the size of GP. 51,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to January. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- IpnariLargest city on its banks · 5,166 people
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- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Bzyb River, month by month
Highest water: from December to January
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 33 m³/s in the lowest month to 120 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.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Bzyb River: the basin in numbers
1,543 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 51,000people live in the basin
- 33/km²people per km²
- 1,544maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,107mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 6.2°Caverage air temperature
- 29%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 2%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 64% Forest
- 1% Cropland
- 30% Pasture
- 1% 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
Bzyb River: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 12Waterfalls
- 1River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Bzyb River 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.
11mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (11)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Ertsakho15 km away3,910m
- Pshish14 km away · prominence 1,032 m3,790m
- Sofiya12 km away3,670m
- Khimsa7.2 km away3,138m
- Mta Shkhapizga13 km away3,026m
- Dzikhva14 km away2,711m
- Mta Khaka13 km away2,694m
- Shkapachi14 km away2,238m
3 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.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (2)
Also: Gega, Baviu
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Georgia53 km19 m³/s32 km awayKodori RiverGeorgia84 km140 m³/s82 km awayRioniGeorgia327 km400 m³/s155 km awayEnguriGeorgia213 km40 m³/s136 km awayÇoruhGeorgia438 km280 m³/s205 km awayTskhenistsqaliGeorgia184 km90 m³/s203 km awayQvirila RiverGeorgia140 km90 m³/s230 km awayKuban
Russia870 km420 m³/s332 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1972264) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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