River
Molochna
197 km from source to mouth · Ukraine.
UkraineFlows into Molochnyi lyman
In numbers
Length
197km
Average flow
12m³/s
Basin
3,450km²
Drop
72m
from 71 m to -1 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
197 km of river and 14 stops on the way: 9 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 71 m
- 32 kmMolochansk6,099 people
- 33 kmTokmaktributary
- 33 kmChingultributary
- 44 kmStarobohdanivka1,001 people
- 53 kmKurushantributary
- 62 kmTerpinnia4,656 people
- 62 kmYushanlytributary
- 64 kmMyrne2,944 people
- 77 kmSemenivka2,869 people
- 79 kmVoznesenka4,917 people
- 83 kmMelitopol148,851 people
- 87 kmKostyantynivka11,540 people
- 88 kmKiziyarsky streamtributary
- 95 kmMolochne1,004 people
- 110 kmMolochnyi lymanat -1 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Ukraine, flows into the Sea of Azov
At the mouth it carries 12 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 217 seconds. It drops from 71 m to -1 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,450 km², about the size of CV. 228,000 people live in it. Highest water: March; lowest: February and from August to October. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- MelitopolLargest city on its banks · 148,851 people
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Molochna, month by month
Highest water: March
Lowest water: February and from August to October. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 0.6 m³/s in the lowest month to 32 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
Molochna: the basin in numbers
3,409 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 228,000people live in the basin
- 67/km²people per km²
- 93maverage altitude of the basin
- 485mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.7°Caverage air temperature
- 1%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 84% Cropland
- 13% Pasture
- 3% 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
Molochna: what you find on the way
- 1River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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
Molochna in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (9)
Also: Chingul, Yushanly, Kurushan, Sysykulak, Tokmak, Bandurka, Arabka river, Kiziyarsky stream, Pischansky stream
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Ukraine232 km2.0 m³/s111 km awayKonka RiverUkraine149 km10 m³/s104 km awayDnieperUkraine2,285 km1,700 m³/s224 km awayKuban
Russia870 km420 m³/s218 km awayKalmiusUkraine209 km8.2 m³/s180 km awaySamara RiverUkraine320 km17 m³/s202 km awayInhulets RiverUkraine549 km1,500 m³/s205 km awayKalchykUkraine88 km27 m³/s180 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1513565) · 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 |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
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