River
Irpin River
162 km from source to mouth · Ukraine.
UkraineFlows into Kyiv Reservoir
In numbers
Length
162km
Average flow
12m³/s
Basin
3,340km²
Drop
87m
from 182 m to 95 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
162 km of river and 14 stops on the way: 9 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 182 m
- 20 kmKrivyankatributary
- 24 kmKornyn1,974 people
- 28 kmBilki373 people
- 42 kmKalinovkatributary
- 76 kmUnawatributary
- 89 kmNovosilky5,316 people
- 96 kmKniazhychi1,347 people
- 109 kmBilohorodka21,369 people
- 113 kmHorenychi2,551 people
- 126 kmIrpin65,167 people
- 132 kmIrpin Bridge (Hostomel)
- 132 kmBuchankatributary
- 134 kmHostomel18,466 people
- 160 kmKozarovichi1,804 people
- 162 kmKyiv Reservoirat 95 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 12 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 201 seconds. It drops from 182 m to 95 m, 0.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,340 km², about the size of CV. 952,000 people live in it. Highest water: April; lowest: from December to February. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- IrpinLargest city on its banks · 65,167 people
- Gomel Airport (GME)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 229 km from the cityCar hire at KBP airport (Boryspil)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Irpin River, month by month
Highest water: April
Lowest water: from December to February. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from January to February. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 5.6 m³/s in the lowest month to 40 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
Irpin River: the basin in numbers
3,344 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 952,000people live in the basin
- 286/km²people per km²
- 176maverage altitude of the basin
- 630mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.6°Caverage air temperature
- 1%protected areas
- 0.6%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 24% Forest
- 48% Cropland
- 6% Pasture
- 10% 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
Irpin River: what you find on the way
- 6Weirs
- 4Locks
- 2River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 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
Irpin River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (15)
Also: Unawa, Borshchahivka (river), Buchanka, Gorenka, Rokach, Krivyanka, Kudelya, Lupe, Kalinovka, Трубище, Bilka, Lyubka, Мощунка, Сивка, Козка
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Ukraine1,130 km360 m³/s25 km awayPripyat RiverUkraine775 km460 m³/s50 km awayTeterivUkraine385 km18 m³/s32 km awayOster RiverUkraine199 km3.2 m³/s37 km awayUzhUkraine256 km520 m³/s56 km awaySozh
Belarus648 km210 m³/s136 km awaySnovUkraine253 km24 m³/s118 km awayTrubizh RiverUkraine113 km360 m³/s111 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q942940) · 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.
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