River
Khopyor
979 km from source to mouth · Russia.
RussiaFlows into Don
In numbers
Length
979km
Average flow
150m³/s
Basin
61,100km²
Drop
132m
from 183 m to 51 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
979 km of river and 31 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 183 m
- 68 kmKolyshleytributary
- 80 kmTumaneykatributary
- 92 kmArchadatributary
- 107 kmSerdobatributary
- 149 kmKamzolkatributary
- 164 kmMitkireytributary
- 170 kmIznairtributary
- 182 kmTamalatributary
- 280 kmBolshoy Arkadaktributary
- 281 kmArkadak14,392 people
- 357 kmBalashov98,107 people
- 409 kmKaraytributary
- 409 kmOzero Bab'ye (lanaw sa Rusya, Saratovskaya Oblast', lat 51,62, long 42,71)1.0 km²
- 468 kmOzero Il'men' (lanaw sa Rusya, Voronezhskaya Oblast', lat 51,32, long 42,55)4.0 km²
- 502 kmPovorino18,004 people
- 529 kmVoronatributary
- 549 kmKalmychoktributary
- 554 kmOzero Yurmash0.3 km²
- 563 kmKarachantributary
- 612 kmSavalatributary
- 617 kmOzero Somovskoye0.7 km²
- 640 kmKosarkatributary
- 640 kmTopkayatributary
- 659 kmOlshankatributary
- 663 kmUryupinsk41,644 people
- 669 kmOzero Il'men' (lanaw sa Rusya, Volgogradskaya Oblast', lat 50,76, long 41,95)0.5 km²
- 696 kmAkchernyatributary
- 781 kmAkishevkatributary
- 798 kmBuzuluktributary
- 880 kmKumylgatributary
- 918 kmRasteryaevkatributary
- 979 kmDonat 51 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Penza Oblast, Russia
At the mouth it carries 150 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 17 seconds. It drops from 183 m to 51 m, 0.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 61,100 km², about the size of LV. 1.0 million people live in it. Highest water, with the snowmelt: from April to May; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- BalashovLargest city on its banks · 98,107 people
- Penza Airport (PEZ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 214 km from the city
- Kayak and canoe2 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Khopyor, month by month
Highest water: from April to May
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from December to February. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 27 m³/s in the lowest month to 850 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
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The basin
Khopyor: the basin in numbers
61,052 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.0millionpeople live in the basin
- 17/km²people per km²
- 157maverage altitude of the basin
- 499mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 5.9°Caverage air temperature
- 3%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 4% Forest
- 68% Cropland
- 21% 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
Khopyor: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
- 1Waterfalls
- 1Rapids
- 1Canoe put-ins
- 18River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Khopyor 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.
5lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (5)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Ozero Bab'ye (lanaw sa Rusya, Saratovskaya Oblast', lat 51,62, long 42,71)km 3501.0km²
- Ozero Il'men' (lanaw sa Rusya, Voronezhskaya Oblast', lat 51,32, long 42,55)km 4014.0km²
- Ozero Yurmashkm 4750.3km²
- Ozero Somovskoyekm 5290.7km²
- Ozero Il'men' (lanaw sa Rusya, Volgogradskaya Oblast', lat 50,76, long 41,95)km 5730.5km²
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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
Khopyor in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
DonRussia1,870 km940 m³/sTributaries (34)
Also: Vorona, Savala, Buzuluk, Karay, Serdoba, Archada, Akchernya, Rasteryaevka, Akishevka, Iznair, Kalmychok, Edovlya, Kamzolka, Kolyshley, Kosarka, Mitkirey, Olshanka, Pyasha, Tamala, Topkaya, Sinyaevka, Shemyakina, Tumaneyka, Sineomutovka
UkraineWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q647052) · 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 |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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