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Inhul River

354 km from source to mouth · Ukraine.

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

In numbers

Length

354km

Average flow

150m³/s

Basin

9,890km²

Drop

153m

from 150 m to -3 m

Country

1

The journey

From source to mouth

354 km of river and 13 stops on the way: 12 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

150 m-3 m
Inhul River Sourcesat 150 m0 km
Novomyrhorod10,715 people26 km
Novoarkhanhelsk6,121 people102 km
Vilshanka4,596 people153 km
Pervomaysk62,426 people175 km
Pivdennoukrainsk38,560 people209 km
Voznesensk33,442 people248 km
Nova Odesa13,547 people291 km
Southern Bugat -3 m354 km
0100200300354 km
  1. 0 kmInhul River Sourcesat 150 m
  2. 26 kmNovomyrhorod10,715 people
  3. 27 kmZlatopil5,200 people
  4. 102 kmNovoarkhanhelsk6,121 people
  5. 153 kmVilshanka4,596 people
  6. 175 kmPervomaysk62,426 people
  7. 209 kmPivdennoukrainsk38,560 people
  8. 227 kmOleksandrivka5,200 people
  9. 248 kmVoznesensk33,442 people
  10. 291 kmNova Odesa13,547 people
  11. 301 kmOlshanske3,622 people
  12. 336 kmMykolaiv470,011 people
  13. 336 kmInhul Bridge
  14. 336 kmMykolayiv470,011 people
  15. 354 kmSouthern Bugat -3 m

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

River in Ukraine

At the mouth it carries 153 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 16 seconds. It drops from 150 m to -3 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 9,890 km², about the size of LB. 3.6 million people live in it. Highest water: from March to May; lowest: from December to February and October. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.

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Where to start

  • MykolayivLargest city on its banks · 470,011 people
  • On the water38 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
  • Kayak and canoe2 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
  • From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit

Inhul River, month by month

Highest water: from March to May

Lowest water: from December to February and October. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): January. Best months to visit: from May to September.

110
-4°37 mmJan
59
-3°38 mmFeb
430
1°30 mmMar
450
9°35 mmApr
440
15°47 mmMay
250
20°64 mmJun
240
22°63 mmJul
210
21°43 mmAug
190
15°38 mmSep
160
9°27 mmOct
200
3°38 mmNov
150
-1°41 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 59 m³/s in the lowest month to 450 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

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The basin

Inhul River: the basin in numbers

63,569 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Free-flowingDams upstream can hold only 0.0% of a year's flow: the river still keeps its natural rhythm.
  • 3.6millionpeople live in the basin
  • 58/km²people per km²
  • 192maverage altitude of the basin
  • 565mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 8.0°Caverage air temperature
  • 1%protected areas
  • 0.5%covered by lakes

What covers the basin

  • 6% Forest
  • 71% Cropland
  • 11% Pasture
  • 2% 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

Inhul River: what you find on the way

  • 21Dams
  • 3Weirs
  • 7Waterfalls
  • 2Rapids
  • 2Boat ramps
  • 28Ferry piersMykolayiv and 27 more
  • 8Marinasnibulon and 7 more
  • 13River beaches

From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Inhul 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.

  • 0lakes on its wayLakeyas

Lakes and reservoirs (0)

Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas

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    From space

    The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

    Inhul River: satellite view of the source
    The source14 km across
    Inhul River: satellite view of the mouth
    The mouth34 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

    Inhul River in pictures

    Ріка Інгул у Кіровограді
    Sergiy Klymenko · CC BY-SA 3.0

    Tributaries

    Where it flows, and what flows into it

    Tributaries (5)

    Also: Gromokliya River, Berëzovka, Adzhamka, Sugokliya River, Suhokliya River, 312 km

    Where these numbers come from

    Name, length, placesWikidata (Q41452) · 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 — 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.

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