River
Luhan
198 km from source to mouth · Ukraine.
UkraineFlows into Donets
In numbers
Length
198km
Average flow
14m³/s
Basin
3,740km²
Drop
71m
from 105 m to 34 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
198 km of river and 13 stops on the way: 11 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 105 m
- 14 kmBakhmut80,500 people
- 43 kmSiversk10,875 people
- 78 kmPryvillia6,520 people
- 82 kmRubizhne55,247 people
- 84 kmNovodruzhesk6,705 people
- 84 kmOzero Peschanoye (lanaw sa Ukranya)0.3 km²
- 90 kmLysychansk93,340 people
- 141 kmSlov`yanoserbsk8,065 people
- 152 kmBila (Luhans'ka oblast')tributary
- 166 kmShchastya11,411 people
- 188 kmKrasnyi Yar3,300 people
- 188 kmVerhunskyi Rozyizd4,000 people
- 192 kmStanytsya-Luhanska12,258 people
- 198 kmDonetsat 34 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 14 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 179 seconds. It drops from 105 m to 34 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,740 km², about the size of CV. 6.5 million people live in it. Highest water: from April to June; lowest: from January to March and October. Its dams hold back little of its water (8.5% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- LysychanskLargest city on its banks · 93,340 people
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Luhan, month by month
Highest water: from April to June
Lowest water: from January to March and October. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from January to February. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 49 m³/s in the lowest month to 660 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
Luhan: the basin in numbers
66,325 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 6.5millionpeople live in the basin
- 99/km²people per km²
- 155maverage altitude of the basin
- 531mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.3°Caverage air temperature
- 2%protected areas
- 0.7%covered by lakes
- 0.5km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 6% Forest
- 58% Cropland
- 20% Pasture
- 5% 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
Luhan: what you find on the way
- 21Weirs
- 2Ferry piers
- 4River beachesVodna and 3 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Luhan in our other atlases
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1lake on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Ozero Peschanoye (lanaw sa Ukranya)km 1000.3km²
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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
Luhan in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Donets
Russia1,053 km160 m³/sTributaries (6)
Also: Vilkhivka River, Bila (Luhans'ka oblast'), Komychouvakha (rivière), Lozova (rivière), Sanjarivka, Karapul'ka
Nearby
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| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2639341) · 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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