River
Piusa River
109 km from source to mouth · Estonia and Russia.
Estonia and RussiaFlows into Lake Pihkva7th longest in Estonia
In numbers
Length
109km
Average flow
5.1m³/s
Basin
796km²
Drop
108m
from 136 m to 28 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
109 km of river and 3 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmKüläjärvat 136 m
- 26 kmTuderna Streamtributary
- 28 kmTuhkvitsa Streamtributary
- 38 kmPelska Rivertributary
- 62 kmLake Pihkvaat 28 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Estonia and Russia
At the mouth it carries 5.1 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 488 seconds. It drops from 136 m to 28 m, 1.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 796 km².
Where to start
- VärskaLargest city on its banks · 414 people
- Princess Olga Pskov International Airport (PKV)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 49 km from the cityCar hire at TAY airport (Tartu)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
Plan the trip
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Along the river
Piusa River: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 2Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Piusa 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.
5mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (5)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Suur Munamägi4.3 km away · prominence 218 m317m
- Vällamägi6.7 km away
- Võidumägi8.0 km away
- Kerekunnu Hill2.5 km away
- Tsälbämägi2.8 km away
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
Piusa River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (7)
Also: Tuderna Stream, Pelska River, Miikse Stream, Tuhkvitsa Stream, Korgõsilla Stream, Pachkovka, Tuplova River
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Russia430 km130 m³/s18 km awayVõhandu RiverEstonia165 km11 m³/s25 km awayEmajõgiEstonia100 km70 m³/s63 km awayAhja RiverEstonia104 km72 m³/s63 km awayPedja RiverEstonia125 km11 m³/s99 km awayPõltsamaa RiverEstonia136 km16 m³/s104 km awayNarvaEstonia74 km400 m³/s168 km awayDaugava
Latvia1,020 km680 m³/s246 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1816805) · 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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