River
Konka River
149 km from source to mouth · Ukraine.
UkraineFlows into Kakhovka Reservoir
In numbers
Length
149km
Average flow
10m³/s
Basin
2,600km²
Drop
109m
from 118 m to 9 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
149 km of river and 13 stops on the way: 12 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 118 m
- 10 kmKinski Rozdory3,113 people
- 19 kmVoskresenka3,502 people
- 29 kmPolohy18,111 people
- 56 kmMalaya Tokmachkatributary
- 61 kmMala Tokmachka2,912 people
- 72 kmPreobrazhenka3,550 people
- 73 kmOrikhiv14,479 people
- 87 kmTavryiske3,291 people
- 88 kmTavriyske3,456 people
- 106 kmKomyshuvakha5,211 people
- 122 kmHryhorivka1,205 people
- 132 kmPrymorske3,840 people
- 132 kmMalokaterynivka3,320 people
- 149 kmKakhovka Reservoirat 9 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 10 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 242 seconds. It drops from 118 m to 9 m, 0.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,600 km², about the size of LU. 78,000 people live in it. Highest water: March; lowest: from December to February and October. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- PolohyLargest city on its banks · 18,111 people
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Konka River, month by month
Highest water: March
Lowest water: from December to February and October. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 2.4 m³/s in the lowest month to 45 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
Konka River: the basin in numbers
2,652 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 78,000people live in the basin
- 30/km²people per km²
- 119maverage altitude of the basin
- 513mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.3°Caverage air temperature
- 2.0%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 81% Cropland
- 16% 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
Konka River: what you find on the way
- 1WaterfallsWaterfall
- 1River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Konka 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.
2mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (2)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Hora Mohyla-Bel'mak11 km away324m
- Tokmak-Mohyla11 km away
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
Konka River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (4)
Also: Jerebets, Soukhaya Konka, Malaya Tokmachka, Verbova (Kinska)
BelarusNearby
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| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1742282) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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