River
Ribnica
57 km from source to mouth · Montenegro.
MontenegroFlows into Morača3rd longest in Montenegro
In numbers
Length
57km
Average flow
67m³/s
Basin
1,511km²
Drop
456m
from 485 m to 29 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
57 km of river and 2 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 485 m
- 55 kmPodgorica236,852 people
- 55 kmAdži-paša's bridge
- 57 kmMoračaat 29 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Montenegro
At the mouth it carries 67 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 37 seconds. It drops from 485 m to 29 m, 8.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,511 km², about the size of GP. 104,000 people live in it. Highest water: from November to January; lowest: from June to September. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- PodgoricaLargest city on its banks · 236,852 people
- Podgorica Airport / Podgorica Golubovci Airbase (TGD)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 9 km from the cityCar hire at TGD airport (Podgorica)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Ribnica, month by month
Highest water: from November to January
Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 20 m³/s in the lowest month to 140 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
Ribnica: the basin in numbers
1,511 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 104,000people live in the basin
- 68/km²people per km²
- 872maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,360mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.7°Caverage air temperature
What covers the basin
- 30% Forest
- 29% Cropland
- 25% 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
Ribnica: what you find on the way
- 2WaterfallsSvetigora
- 2River beachesPlaža Labud, Plaža Sastavci
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Ribnica 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.
205mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (205)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Babin vrh3.8 km away2,277m
- Kapa Moračka7.9 km away · prominence 686 m2,216m
- Torna (Bablji zub)3.8 km away · prominence 814 m2,253m
- Zagradac7.9 km away2,216m
- Suvi Vrh9.3 km away2,037m
- Veliki Sušac15 km away1,231m
- Mali Sušac15 km away1,177m
- Somina Planina10 km away
197 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
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
Ribnica in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
MoračaMontenegro99 km15 m³/s
KosovoNearby
Rivers nearby
Montenegro62 km260 m³/s10 km awayDrin
Albania280 km350 m³/s66 km awayBunaAlbania40 km680 m³/s66 km awayBlack DrinAlbania177 km50 m³/s103 km awayWhite DrinAlbania175 km56 m³/s103 km awayMatAlbania115 km100 m³/s92 km awayTara
Bosnia and Herzegovina144 km25 m³/s110 km awayPivaBosnia and Herzegovina34 km14 m³/s106 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1288018) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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