River
Mukhavets River
113 km from source to mouth · Belarus.
BelarusFlows into Western Bug
In numbers
Length
113km
Average flow
34m³/s
Basin
6,350km²
Drop
20m
from 147 m to 127 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
113 km of river and 9 stops on the way: 5 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmPružanyat 147 m
- 0 kmPruzhany18,994 people
- 46 kmKobryn52,235 people
- 68 kmTrascianicatributary
- 74 kmZhabinka14,430 people
- 78 kmAsipoŭkatributary
- 92 kmRytatributary
- 101 kmBrest rowing basin0.5 km²
- 107 kmBrest347,138 people
- 109 kmTerespol6,000 people
- 113 kmWestern Bugat 127 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Belarus
At the mouth it carries 34 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 74 seconds. It drops from 147 m to 127 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 6,350 km², about the size of PS. 2.0 million people live in it. Highest water: from March to May; lowest: from January to February. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- BrestLargest city on its banks · 347,138 people
- Brest International Airport (BQT)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 17 km from the cityCar hire at LUZ airport (Lublin)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Mukhavets River, month by month
Highest water: from March to May
Lowest water: from January to February. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): January. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 50 m³/s in the lowest month to 180 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
Mukhavets River: the basin in numbers
22,268 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 2.0millionpeople live in the basin
- 91/km²people per km²
- 195maverage altitude of the basin
- 583mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.4°Caverage air temperature
- 10%protected areas
- 0.7%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 21% Forest
- 40% Cropland
- 16% 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
Mukhavets River: what you find on the way
- 13Weirs
- 10Locks
- 9River beachesZarechny beach and 8 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.0 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Mukhavets 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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Brest rowing basinkm 1040.5km²
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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
Mukhavets River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Western Bug
Poland772 km110 m³/sTributaries (7)
Also: Ryta, Asipoŭka, Trascianica, Shabinka, Kobrynka, Palachva, Šeŭnia
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q430799) · 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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