Skip to content
riveryas
EN

River

Ibar

276 km from source to mouth · Serbia, Kosovo and Montenegro.

SerbiaKosovoMontenegroSerbia, Kosovo and MontenegroFlows into West Morava7th longest in Serbia

Follow the riverMonth by month

SourceMouthMitrovicë
The river and every tributary in its basin, drawn from RiverATLAS (CC BY 4.0).

In numbers

Length

276km

Average flow

110m³/s

Basin

8,059km²

Drop

833m

from 1,018 m to 185 m

Countries

3

The journey

From source to mouth

276 km of river and 17 stops on the way: 9 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

1,018 m185 m
Sourceat 1,018 m0 km
Brnjak Bridge54 km
Gazivoda Lake8.5 km²68 km
Mitrovicë107,045 people97 km
Zvečan17,000 people103 km
Leposaviq19,000 people136 km
Raškatributary174 km
Studenicatributary211 km
West Moravaat 185 m276 km
0100200276 km
  1. 0 kmSourceat 1,018 m
  2. 0 kmRožaje9,121 people
  3. 0 kmIbarac3,135 people
  4. 54 kmBrnjak Bridge
  5. 68 kmGazivoda Lake8.5 km²
  6. 74 kmZubin Potok14,900 people
  7. 94 kmShipol4,195 people
  8. 94 kmZhabari i Ultë6,470 people
  9. 97 kmMitrovicë107,045 people
  10. 98 kmIbër Bridge
  11. 98 kmMitrovica bridge 2
  12. 100 kmSitnicatributary
  13. 103 kmZvečan17,000 people
  14. 136 kmLeposaviq19,000 people
  15. 174 kmRaškatributary
  16. 211 kmStudenicatributary
  17. 266 kmGlavčić's Bridge in Kraljevo
  18. 266 kmKraljevo82,846 people
  19. 276 kmWest Moravaat 185 m

Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.

River in Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo

At the mouth it carries 110 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 23 seconds. It drops from 1,018 m to 185 m, 3.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 8,059 km², about the size of PR. 1.3 million people live in it. Highest water: February, April and December. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (15% of a year's flow).

Read more on Wikipedia

Where to start

  • MitrovicëLargest city on its banks · 107,045 people
  • Priština Adem Jashari International Airport (PRN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 37 km from the cityCar hire at PRN airport (Prishtina)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
  • On the water2 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

Ibar, month by month

Highest water: February, April and December

Best months to visit: from May to September.

100
-1°63 mmJan
260
1°56 mmFeb
200
5°60 mmMar
260
10°68 mmApr
160
14°92 mmMay
150
17°81 mmJun
120
19°72 mmJul
51
19°62 mmAug
39
16°63 mmSep
85
11°71 mmOct
190
5°81 mmNov
260
1°73 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 39 m³/s in the lowest month to 260 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

Car hire at PRN airport (Prishtina)Discover CarsSee 

Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.

The basin

Ibar: the basin in numbers

12,651 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Heavily regulatedReservoirs can hold 15% of a year's flow: dams shape its seasons.
  • 1.3millionpeople live in the basin
  • 105/km²people per km²
  • 787maverage altitude of the basin
  • 870mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 8.7°Caverage air temperature
  • 7%protected areas
  • 0.1%covered by lakes
  • 0.5km³held in reservoirs

What covers the basin

  • 30% Forest
  • 28% Cropland
  • 15% Pasture
  • 5% 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

Ibar: what you find on the way

  • 7DamsBrana Gazivode, Isidore Sekulić and 5 more
  • 5Weirs
  • 2WaterfallsWaterfall
  • 1Canoe put-ins
  • 2Ferry piers
  • 4River beaches

From OpenStreetMap, within 1.9 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Ibar 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.

  • 1lake on its wayLakeyas
  • 140mountains at the sourcePeakyas

Lakes and reservoirs (1)

Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas

  1. Gazivoda Lakekm 54 · 105 m deep8.5km²

Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗

Mountains at the source (140)

Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas

  1. Hajla4.8 km away2,403m
  2. Žljeb mountain13 km away2,382m
  3. Rusolia14 km away2,382m
  4. Suva Glavica11 km away1,762m
  5. Stanilovica6.5 km away1,731m
  6. Hom Šur14 km away1,700m
  7. Dramadol2.2 km away
  8. Lićenat14 km away

132 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗

From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Ibar: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Ibar: satellite view of the mouth
The mouth15 km across

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

Ibar in pictures

Kameni most preko Ibra u Raškoj
CrniBombarder!!! · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ibar Canyon Montenegro
Julian Nyča · CC BY 3.0
Ibar Gorge Tutin 1
Wlodzimierz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ibar Gorge Tutin 10
Wlodzimierz · CC BY-SA 4.0

Tributaries

Where it flows, and what flows into it

It flows into

West MoravaSerbiaSerbia308 km120 m³/s

Tributaries (3)

SitnicaSerbiaSerbia90 km95 m³/sjoins at km 80

Also: Raška, Studenica

In the same basin

DanubeRomaniaRomania2,850 km5,400 m³/sTiszaSerbiaSerbia966 km800 m³/sSavaSerbiaSerbia945 km1,700 m³/sDravaCroatiaCroatia720 km620 m³/sInnGermanyGermany517 km740 m³/sPrutMoldovaMoldova953 km120 m³/sIsarGermanyGermany292 km170 m³/sMoravaAustriaAustria388 km110 m³/sDrinaSerbiaSerbia346 km120 m³/sSiret RiverRomaniaRomania740 km230 m³/s

Nearby

Rivers nearby

South MoravaSerbiaSerbia295 km100 m³/s52 km awaySavaSerbiaSerbia945 km1,700 m³/s126 km awayGreat MoravaSerbiaSerbia185 km230 m³/s113 km awayNišavaSerbiaSerbia218 km100 m³/s89 km awayTiszaSerbiaSerbia966 km800 m³/s162 km awayTimiș RiverSerbiaSerbia359 km47 m³/s125 km awaySitnicaSerbiaSerbia90 km95 m³/s92 km awayLimBosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina220 km860 m³/s125 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q392840) · CC0
Course, profile, basinRiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata
FlowWaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Climate along the riverWorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Towns, bridges, damsWikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Along the river© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Our other atlasesLakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST

Every source and licence is on the data sources page.

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers or canyons?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, month by month, in seven languages.

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit
lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Coming soonVisit
mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit
waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Coming soonVisit
islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Coming soonVisit
riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.You are here
canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Coming soonVisit