River
Drawa
186 km from source to mouth · Poland.
PolandFlows into Noteć
In numbers
Length
186km
Average flow
22m³/s
Basin
3,296km²
Drop
98m
from 126 m to 28 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
186 km of river and 25 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 126 m
- 0 kmJezioro Komorze3.5 km²
- 3 kmŻerdno Lake1.9 km²
- 10 kmDrawsko Lake16 km²
- 21 kmJezioro Krosino1.6 km²
- 23 kmWąsosze2.9 km²
- 23 kmJezioro Wilczkowo2.6 km²
- 27 kmKleszczno0.3 km²
- 27 kmZłocieniec13,337 people
- 48 kmDrawsko Pomorskie11,275 people
- 53 kmOkra0.4 km²
- 58 kmJezioro Czaple (Pojezierze Drawskie)0.5 km²
- 60 kmJezioro Jelenie0.5 km²
- 62 kmJezioro Konotop0.3 km²
- 72 kmJezioro Lubie13 km²
- 82 kmWielkie Dębno0.8 km²
- 92 kmJezioro Jeziorak0.3 km²
- 105 kmTrzebuń1.0 km²
- 111 kmJezioro Mąkowarskie1.4 km²
- 121 kmDrawno2,423 people
- 122 kmRudno0.6 km²
- 123 kmDubie0.9 km²
- 139 kmKorytnicatributary
- 153 kmOstrowite Lake3.0 km²
- 163 kmPłocicznatributary
- 184 kmKrzyż Wielkopolski6,300 people
- 186 kmNotećat 28 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Poland
At the mouth it carries 22 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 115 seconds. It drops from 126 m to 28 m, 0.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,296 km², about the size of CV. 92,000 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
- ZłocieniecLargest city on its banks · 13,337 people
- Solidarity Szczecin–Goleniów Airport (SZZ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 74 km from the cityCar hire at SZZ airport (Szczecin)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water45 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe1 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Drawa, month by month
Highest water: March
Lowest water: from December to February. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 14 m³/s in the lowest month to 36 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
Drawa: the basin in numbers
3,290 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 92,000people live in the basin
- 29/km²people per km²
- 109maverage altitude of the basin
- 604mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.9°Caverage air temperature
- 31%protected areas
- 3.5%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 57% Forest
- 23% Cropland
- 7% 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
Drawa: what you find on the way
- 8Weirs
- 3LocksNoteć
- 1Waterfalls
- 1Canoe put-ins
- 36Boat ramps
- 2Ferry piers
- 3Marinas
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Drawa 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.
19lakes on its wayLakeyas
3mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (19)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Jezioro Komorzekm 03.5km²
- Żerdno Lakekm 21.9km²
- Drawsko Lakekm 8 · 83 m deep16km²
- Wąsoszekm 182.9km²
- Jezioro Wilczkowokm 182.6km²
- Jezioro Lubiekm 56 · 46 m deep13km²
- Trzebuńkm 831.0km²
- Ostrowite Lakekm 1213.0km²
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Mountains at the source (3)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- P.19813 km away198m
- Wola Góra3.2 km away
- Spyczyna Góry12 km away
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
It flows into
NotećPoland388 km210 m³/sTributaries (4)
Also: Kokna, Płociczna, Korytnica, Wąsawa
Germany
CzechiaNearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1254708) · 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, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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