River
Lovat
530 km from source to mouth · Russia and Belarus.
Russia and BelarusFlows into Ilmen
In numbers
Length
530km
Average flow
100m³/s
Basin
21,900km²
Drop
129m
from 145 m to 16 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
530 km of river and 20 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmValdai Hillsat 145 m
- 0 kmZadrač0.7 km²
- 18 kmOzero Mezho0.6 km²
- 20 kmOzero Sosno0.8 km²
- 23 kmOzero Chernyasto1.5 km²
- 32 kmSesito3.0 km²
- 73 kmUritskoe11 km²
- 85 kmVorokhobskoe2.5 km²
- 99 kmKomsha0.4 km²
- 151 kmVelikiye Luki103,149 people
- 170 kmNasvatributary
- 235 kmLoknyatributary
- 262 kmBol'shaya Smatatributary
- 315 kmKunyatributary
- 316 kmKholm4,000 people
- 403 kmRakhlitsy7 people
- 443 kmRob'yatributary
- 471 kmParfino8,254 people
- 495 kmRedyatributary
- 497 kmOzero Sereberskoye1.6 km²
- 498 kmPolisttributary
- 530 kmIlmenat 16 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, flows into Lake Ilmen
At the mouth it carries 105 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 24 seconds. It drops from 145 m to 16 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 21,900 km², about the size of SV. 284,000 people live in it. Highest water: from April to June; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Velikiye LukiLargest city on its banks · 103,149 people
- Princess Olga Pskov International Airport (PKV)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 206 km from the city
- On the water3 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Lovat, month by month
Highest water: from April to June
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from December to February. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 140 m³/s in the lowest month to 840 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
Lovat: the basin in numbers
29,723 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 284,000people live in the basin
- 10/km²people per km²
- 126maverage altitude of the basin
- 624mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 4.3°Caverage air temperature
- 10%protected areas
- 1.5%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 75% Forest
- 10% Cropland
- 8% Pasture
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
Lovat: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
- 1Waterfalls
- 1Ferry piers
- 1Marinas
- 1River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Lovat 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.
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Lakes and reservoirs (9)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Zadračkm 00.7km²
- Ozero Mezhokm 140.6km²
- Ozero Sosnokm 160.8km²
- Ozero Chernyastokm 191.5km²
- Sesitokm 263.0km²
- Uritskoekm 5811km²
- Vorokhobskoekm 682.5km²
- Komshakm 790.4km²
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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
Lovat in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (29)
Also: Polist, Kunya, Redya, Loknya, Peschanka, Nasva, Bol'shaya Smata, Vitsa, Zherebchakha, Komlya, Krupitsa, Rob'ya, Shulga, Balazdyn, Gorodyanka, Zagarka, Zarobskaya Robya, Lazavitsa, Mazurovka, Olshanka, Pankovka, Rogatka, Rubezhnitsa, Rytovitsa
Nearby
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Russia74 km2,500 m³/s201 km awayVelikayaRussia430 km130 m³/s200 km awayVolkhovRussia224 km590 m³/s220 km awayNarva
Estonia74 km400 m³/s240 km awayPiusa RiverEstonia109 km5.1 m³/s215 km awayEmajõgiEstonia100 km70 m³/s246 km awayVõhandu RiverEstonia165 km11 m³/s228 km awaySvirRussia224 km790 m³/s266 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q255379) · 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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