River
Drut River
295 km from source to mouth · Belarus.
BelarusFlows into Dnieper9th longest in Belarus
In numbers
Length
295km
Average flow
30m³/s
Basin
5,020km²
Drop
63m
from 186 m to 123 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
295 km of river and 11 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 186 m
- 0 kmTolochin9,542 people
- 22 kmKrugloye7,300 people
- 33 kmVodochranilisjtje Teterinskoje3.1 km²
- 58 kmBelynichi9,553 people
- 68 kmAsliktributary
- 74 kmVabičtributary
- 118 kmBalonaŭkatributary
- 130 kmČyhirynskaje Reservoir20 km²
- 139 kmHrezatributary
- 173 kmRahachow31,490 people
- 176 kmDobrytsatributary
- 181 kmDnieperat 123 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Belarus
At the mouth it carries 30 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 83 seconds. It drops from 186 m to 123 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 5,020 km², about the size of TT. 1.3 million people live in it. Highest water: from April to June; lowest: from January to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- RahachowLargest city on its banks · 31,490 people
- Gomel Airport (GME)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 90 km from the city
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Drut River, month by month
Highest water: from April to June
Lowest water: from January to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from December to February. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 80 m³/s in the lowest month to 670 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
Drut River: the basin in numbers
29,636 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.3millionpeople live in the basin
- 44/km²people per km²
- 200maverage altitude of the basin
- 630mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 5.1°Caverage air temperature
- 3%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 41% Forest
- 32% Cropland
- 13% 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
Drut River: what you find on the way
- 4Weirs
- 1Waterfalls
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Drut 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.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Vodochranilisjtje Teterinskojekm 333.1km²
- Čyhirynskaje Reservoirkm 13020km²
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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
Drut River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Dnieper
Ukraine2,285 km1,700 m³/sTributaries (12)
Also: Vabič, Balonaŭka, Aslik, Hreza, Niaroplia, Bielaja, Dobrytsa, Malysj, Viadzierka, Arlianka, Uzbinka, Biarozaŭka
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1261492) · 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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