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Inhulets River

549 km from source to mouth · Ukraine.

UkraineUkraineFlows into Dnieper8th longest in Ukraine

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

In numbers

Length

549km

Average flow

1,500m³/s

Basin

13,700km²

Drop

364m

from 145 m to -219 m

Country

1

The journey

From source to mouth

549 km of river and 29 stops on the way: 19 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

145 m-219 m
Topyloat 145 m0 km
Oleksandriia76,097 people76 km
Petrove7,150 people126 km
Kryvyi Rih603,904 people203 km
Kryvyy Rih603,904 people203 km
Shestirnia987 people278 km
Velyka Oleksandrivka6,654 people334 km
Vysun Rivertributary420 km
Snihurivka12,045 people421 km
Darivka Bridge501 km
Dnieperat -219 m549 km
0200400549 km
  1. 0 kmTopyloat 145 m
  2. 32 kmDmytrivka4,070 people
  3. 67 kmPryyutivka3,148 people
  4. 74 kmOleksandriya76,097 people
  5. 76 kmOleksandriia76,097 people
  6. 77 kmPivdennyi5,400 people
  7. 99 kmNovyi Starodub4,777 people
  8. 100 kmBeshkatributary
  9. 126 kmPetrove7,150 people
  10. 139 kmZelenatributary
  11. 147 kmIskrivka Lake7.3 km²
  12. 148 kmZhovtatributary
  13. 157 kmNedaivoda1,156 people
  14. 172 kmLozuvatka6,412 people
  15. 187 kmBokovatributary
  16. 193 kmKarachunivka Reservoir32 km²
  17. 194 kmKarachun Dam
  18. 203 kmSaksahantributary
  19. 203 kmKryvyi Rih603,904 people
  20. 203 kmKryvyy Rih603,904 people
  21. 210 kmPivdennyi Hirnycho-Zbahachuvalnyi Kombinat6,800 people
  22. 234 kmInhulets62,173 people
  23. 242 kmShyroke9,623 people
  24. 278 kmShestirnia987 people
  25. 334 kmVelyka Oleksandrivka6,654 people
  26. 420 kmVysun Rivertributary
  27. 421 kmSnihurivka12,045 people
  28. 501 kmDarivka Bridge
  29. 530 kmAntonivka12,777 people
  30. 541 kmKherson66,000 people
  31. 549 kmDnieperat -219 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 1,547 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 1.6 seconds. It drops from 145 m to -219 m, 0.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 13,700 km², about the size of BS. 28.9 million people live in it. Highest water: from March to June; lowest: from January to February. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 90% of a year's flow.

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Where to start

  • Kryvyy RihLargest city on its banks · 603,904 people
  • On the water31 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
  • Kayak and canoe3 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
  • From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit

Inhulets River, month by month

Highest water: from March to June

Lowest water: from January to February. Best months to visit: from May to September.

1,200
-4°34 mmJan
1,000
-3°31 mmFeb
2,800
1°26 mmMar
3,000
9°34 mmApr
3,000
16°43 mmMay
3,000
20°55 mmJun
1,800
22°57 mmJul
1,700
21°40 mmAug
1,700
16°38 mmSep
1,600
10°29 mmOct
1,700
3°36 mmNov
1,500
-1°40 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 1,000 m³/s in the lowest month to 3,000 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.

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The basin

Inhulets River: the basin in numbers

506,100 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

DammedReservoirs can hold 90% of a year's flow: much of the river is a chain of lakes.
  • 28.9millionpeople live in the basin
  • 59/km²people per km²
  • 160maverage altitude of the basin
  • 592mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 7.0°Caverage air temperature
  • 3%protected areas
  • 1.5%covered by lakes
  • 44km³held in reservoirs

What covers the basin

  • 22% Forest
  • 48% Cropland
  • 13% 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

Inhulets River: what you find on the way

  • 18Dams
  • 7Weirs
  • 1LocksKobylna
  • 4Waterfalls
  • 3Rapids
  • 3Boat ramps
  • 28Ferry piers
  • 5River beaches

From OpenStreetMap, within 2.8 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Inhulets 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

  1. Iskrivka Lakekm 1317.3km²
  2. Karachunivka Reservoirkm 17232km²

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From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Inhulets River: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Inhulets River: satellite view of the mouth
The mouth97 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

Inhulets River in pictures

Mündung der Saksahan in die Inhulez in Krywyj Rih 4
Berihert · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mündung der Saksahan in die Inhulez in Krywyj Rih 3
Berihert · CC BY-SA 3.0

Tributaries

Where it flows, and what flows into it

It flows into

DnieperUkraineUkraine2,285 km1,700 m³/s

Tributaries (8)

Also: Vysun River, Saksahan, Zhovta, Bokova, Beshka, Berezivka, Kobylnya, Zelena

In the same basin

Pripyat RiverUkraineUkraine775 km460 m³/sDesnaUkraineUkraine1,130 km360 m³/sBerezinaBelarusBelarus613 km140 m³/sSeymUkraineUkraine696 km100 m³/sSozhBelarusBelarus648 km210 m³/sPselUkraineUkraine717 km55 m³/sHorynBelarusBelarus659 km110 m³/sVorsklaUkraineUkraine464 km36 m³/sStyr RiverBelarusBelarus494 km50 m³/sTeterivUkraineUkraine385 km18 m³/s

Nearby

Rivers nearby

Southern BugUkraineUkraine806 km160 m³/s57 km awayInhul RiverUkraineUkraine354 km150 m³/s57 km awayDniesterUkraineUkraine1,352 km310 m³/s183 km awayDanubeRomaniaRomania2,850 km5,400 m³/s273 km awaySalhyrUkraineUkraine232 km2.0 m³/s211 km awayMolochnaUkraineUkraine197 km12 m³/s205 km awayAlmaUkraineUkraine83 km1.2 m³/s211 km awayKonka RiverUkraineUkraine149 km10 m³/s216 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q1331959) · 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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