River
Iput
437 km from source to mouth · Belarus and Russia.
Belarus and RussiaFlows into Sozh5th longest in Belarus
In numbers
Length
437km
Average flow
83m³/s
Basin
10,900km²
Drop
47m
from 158 m to 111 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
437 km of river and 5 stops on the way: 5 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 158 m
- 89 kmKrychaw22,973 people
- 146 kmCherikov7,710 people
- 203 kmSlawharad7,647 people
- 314 kmChachersk8,926 people
- 404 kmVyetka8,580 people
- 437 kmSozhat 111 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Belarus and Russia
At the mouth it carries 83 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 30 seconds. It drops from 158 m to 111 m, 0.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 10,900 km², about the size of XK. 494,000 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
- KrychawLargest city on its banks · 22,973 people
- Mogilev Airport (MVQ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 109 km from the city
- On the water5 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to AugustThe best months to visit
Iput, month by month
Highest water: from April to June
Lowest water: from January to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from January to February. Best months to visit: from May to August.
From about 89 m³/s in the lowest month to 430 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
Iput: the basin in numbers
27,650 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 494,000people live in the basin
- 18/km²people per km²
- 175maverage altitude of the basin
- 611mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 5.7°Caverage air temperature
- 3%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 27% Forest
- 42% Cropland
- 19% 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
Iput: what you find on the way
- 1Locks
- 3Ferry piers
- 2Marinas
- 4River beaches"Volotovskoy" beach, Bora-Bora and 2 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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
Iput in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
SozhTributaries (10)
Also: Khoroput, Ačosa, Karna, Vitava, Voronitsa, Voronusa, Unecha, Netesha, Irzhach, Nadva
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1813407) · 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 |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
The family
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