River
Laborec
129 km from source to mouth · Slovakia.
SlovakiaFlows into Latorica6th longest in Slovakia
In numbers
Length
129km
Average flow
540m³/s
Basin
4,522km²
Drop
209m
from 303 m to 94 m
Country
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The journey
From source to mouth
129 km of river and 21 stops on the way: 16 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 303 m
- 0 kmMedzilaborce5,669 people
- 19 kmRadvaň nad Laborcom508 people
- 21 kmBrestov nad Laborcom145 people
- 28 kmVýravatributary
- 37 kmVeľopolie380 people
- 40 kmUdavské1,221 people
- 44 kmUdavatributary
- 46 kmCirochatributary
- 48 kmHumenné29,179 people
- 50 kmJasenov1,243 people
- 56 kmBrekov1,290 people
- 59 kmStrážske4,169 people
- 69 kmTrnava pri Laborci646 people
- 70 kmPetrovce nad Laborcom1,123 people
- 77 kmMichalovce34,894 people
- 91 kmZemplínska Široká1,043 people
- 101 kmUzh Rivertributary
- 105 kmVojany966 people
- 111 kmVeľké Raškovce304 people
- 112 kmDušatributary
- 114 kmOborín685 people
- 129 kmLatoricaat 94 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Slovakia
At the mouth it carries 545 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 4.6 seconds. It drops from 303 m to 94 m, 1.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 4,522 km², about the size of CV. 952,000 people live in it. Highest water: from March to May; lowest: from January to February. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (14% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- MichalovceLargest city on its banks · 34,894 people
- Košice International Airport (KSC)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 51 km from the cityCar hire at KSC airport (Košice)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Laborec, month by month
Highest water: from March to May
Lowest water: from January to February. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 38 m³/s in the lowest month to 200 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
Laborec: the basin in numbers
9,667 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 952,000people live in the basin
- 98/km²people per km²
- 367maverage altitude of the basin
- 743mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.0°Caverage air temperature
- 13%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 0.4km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 61% Forest
- 23% Cropland
- 13% Pasture
- 4% 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
Laborec: what you find on the way
- 5Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.8 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Laborec 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.
15mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (15)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Horb Sredni15 km away822m
- Piotruś12 km away727m
- Daňová13 km away841m
- Piotruś - Beskid Niski 727 m n p m12 km away576m
- Bania Szklarska11 km away
- Kamień2.3 km away
- Ostra9.2 km away
- Weretyszów7.5 km away
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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
Laborec in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
LatoricaSlovakia182 km37 m³/sTributaries (10)
Also: Cirocha, Udava, Výrava, Duša, Olšava, Ptava, Vydranka, Jasenovský potok, Ľubiška
Romania
Serbia
Croatia
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
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Hungary
PolandWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q852308) · 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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