River
Dospat
97 km from source to mouth · Greece and Bulgaria.
Greece and BulgariaFlows into Nestos9th longest in Greece
In numbers
Length
97km
Average flow
20m³/s
Basin
633km²
Drop
368m
from 739 m to 371 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
97 km of river and 1 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 739 m
- 63 kmHadzhidimovo3,167 people
- 97 kmNestosat 371 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Bulgaria and Greece
At the mouth it carries 20 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 128 seconds. It drops from 739 m to 371 m, 3.8 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 633 km². 119,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to January; lowest: from August to September. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- HadzhidimovoLargest city on its banks · 3,167 people
- Kavala Alexander the Great International Airport (KVA)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 92 km from the cityCar hire at PDV airport (Plovdiv)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Dospat, month by month
Highest water: from December to January
Lowest water: from August to September. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 6.0 m³/s in the lowest month to 52 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
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The basin
Dospat: the basin in numbers
2,932 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 119,000people live in the basin
- 40/km²people per km²
- 1,211maverage altitude of the basin
- 626mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.4°Caverage air temperature
- 26%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 56% Forest
- 8% Cropland
- 11% 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
Dospat: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
- 2Boat ramps
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Dospat 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.
2mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (2)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Beslet13 km away1,938m
- Veliytsa9.7 km away1,712m
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
Dospat in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
NestosGreece230 km40 m³/sNearby
Rivers nearby
Greece415 km80 m³/s69 km awayStrumicaBulgaria114 km100 m³/s67 km awayVardarGreece388 km180 m³/s151 km awayMaritsa
Turkey490 km200 m³/s179 km awayHaliacmonGreece297 km56 m³/s157 km awayCrna
North Macedonia207 km37 m³/s173 km awayBregalnicaNorth Macedonia225 km28 m³/s181 km awayPineiosGreece216 km67 m³/s202 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q3358068) · 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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