River
Prosna
216 km from source to mouth · Poland.
PolandFlows into Warta
In numbers
Length
216km
Average flow
18m³/s
Basin
4,925km²
Drop
116m
from 186 m to 70 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
216 km of river and 7 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmWolęcin, Opole Voivodeshipat 186 m
- 4 kmPraszka8,150 people
- 54 kmPomiankatributary
- 58 kmWieruszów8,692 people
- 59 kmNiesóbtributary
- 77 kmStruga Węglewskatributary
- 136 kmLake Szałe1.4 km²
- 142 kmKalisz108,759 people
- 216 kmWartaat 70 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Poland
At the mouth it carries 18 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 138 seconds. It drops from 186 m to 70 m, 0.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 4,925 km², about the size of TT. 529,000 people live in it. Highest water: March; lowest: from December to February. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- KaliszLargest city on its banks · 108,759 people
- Łódź Władysław Reymont Airport (LCJ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 90 km from the cityCar hire at WRO airport (Wrocław)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water6 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Prosna, month by month
Highest water: March
Lowest water: from December to February. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 11 m³/s in the lowest month to 30 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
Prosna: the basin in numbers
4,837 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 529,000people live in the basin
- 109/km²people per km²
- 153maverage altitude of the basin
- 538mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.3°Caverage air temperature
- 5%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 11% Forest
- 61% Cropland
- 10% Pasture
- 4% 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
Prosna: what you find on the way
- 66Weirsjaz Oświęcim, Jaz Bernardyński, Jaz Rypinkowski and 63 more
- 1Locks
- 3Boat rampsMiejsce wodowania łodzi
- 3MarinasYKP Kalisz, UJKS Szturwał Kalisz
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Prosna 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
- Lake Szałekm 1101.4km²
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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
Prosna in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
WartaPoland808 km200 m³/sTributaries (5)
Also: Struga Węglewska, Niesób, Pomianka, Łużyca, Ołobok
Germany
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q304527) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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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