River
Cheptsa
501 km from source to mouth · Russia.
RussiaFlows into Vyatka
In numbers
Length
501km
Average flow
130m³/s
Basin
20,400km²
Drop
85m
from 193 m to 108 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
501 km of river and 42 stops on the way: 5 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 193 m
- 16 kmGryaznukhatributary
- 16 kmLegzyushkatributary
- 34 kmLemtributary
- 34 kmPykhtatributary
- 43 kmMedlotributary
- 50 kmDebësy5,800 people
- 59 kmIrymkatributary
- 76 kmLyptributary
- 83 kmLozatributary
- 93 kmTugatributary
- 100 kmPulybkatributary
- 114 kmPyzeptributary
- 116 kmLyuktributary
- 120 kmUntemkatributary
- 126 kmKeptributary
- 136 kmYundatributary
- 139 kmBalezino16,618 people
- 153 kmKestymkatributary
- 180 kmSepychtributary
- 184 kmGlazov100,676 people
- 202 kmPyshketstributary
- 203 kmUbyttributary
- 214 kmZhabatributary
- 239 kmYar7,122 people
- 244 kmTumtributary
- 247 kmPudem Pond3.5 km²
- 258 kmLekmatributary
- 261 kmKostromkatributary
- 261 kmSizmatributary
- 288 kmSadatributary
- 295 kmYarovkatributary
- 295 kmSvyatitsatributary
- 337 kmKosatributary
- 337 kmPolynkatributary
- 377 kmKordyagatributary
- 377 kmMalaya Kordyagatributary
- 389 kmMelkovitsatributary
- 402 kmRogovkatributary
- 402 kmMurlevkatributary
- 422 kmFilippovkatributary
- 473 kmKarinskaya railway Cheptsa bridge
- 475 kmKirovo-Chepetsk90,252 people
- 501 kmVyatkaat 108 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Perm Krai, Udmurtia, and Kirov Oblast, Russia
At the mouth it carries 130 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 19 seconds. It drops from 193 m to 108 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 20,400 km², about the size of SI. 311,000 people live in it. Highest water, with the snowmelt: from April to June; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- GlazovLargest city on its banks · 100,676 people
- Izhevsk Airport (IJK)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 153 km from the city
- On the water6 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Cheptsa, month by month
Highest water: from April to June
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 23 m³/s in the lowest month to 690 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
Cheptsa: the basin in numbers
20,230 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 311,000people live in the basin
- 15/km²people per km²
- 196maverage altitude of the basin
- 605mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 2.1°Caverage air temperature
- 0.1%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 51% Forest
- 35% Cropland
- 10% 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
Cheptsa: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 1Boat ramps
- 1Ferry piers
- 4Marinas
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.0 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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1lake on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Pudem Pondkm 2223.5km²
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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
Cheptsa in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
VyatkaRussia1,314 km890 m³/sTributaries (61)
Also: Ubyt, Sada, Yasnovka, Lekma, Tum, Kep, Pyshkets, Irymka, Syga, Svyatitsa, Lyp, Sepych, Pykhta, Barmashurka, Kostromka, Sizma, Gryaznukha, Kosa, Loza, Pudem, Tuga, Sylyz, Yunda, Polynka
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Russia1,805 km4,100 m³/s356 km awaySukhonaRussia558 km460 m³/s320 km awayVetlugaRussia889 km260 m³/s327 km awayYugRussia574 km290 m³/s320 km awayBelayaRussia1,430 km950 m³/s364 km awayVychegdaRussia1,130 km1,200 m³/s360 km awaySuraRussia841 km260 m³/s364 km awayChusovayaRussia735 km220 m³/s369 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q864697) · 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 | Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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