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Ros River

346 km from source to mouth · Ukraine.

UkraineUkraineFlows into Dnieper

Follow the riverMonth by month

SourceMouthBila Tserkva
The river and every tributary in its basin, drawn from RiverATLAS (CC BY 4.0).

In numbers

Length

346km

Average flow

22m³/s

Basin

12,575km²

Drop

150m

from 221 m to 71 m

Country

1

The journey

From source to mouth

346 km of river and 22 stops on the way: 11 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

221 m71 m
Sourceat 221 m0 km
Orikhovatkatributary55 km
Roska Rivertributary70 km
Skvyrkatributary110 km
Bila Tserkva208,944 people135 km
Horokhuvatkatributary186 km
Bohuslav15,789 people218 km
Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi17,763 people267 km
Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi hydroelectric power station267 km
Rosava Rivertributary314 km
Dnieperat 71 m346 km
0100200300346 km
  1. 0 kmSourceat 221 m
  2. 17 kmPohrebyshche9,209 people
  3. 26 kmKrupoderyntsi433 people
  4. 55 kmOrikhovatkatributary
  5. 70 kmRoska Rivertributary
  6. 89 kmVolodarka7,355 people
  7. 95 kmBereznyankatributary
  8. 110 kmSkvyrkatributary
  9. 117 kmPilipcha633 people
  10. 119 kmRostavytsiatributary
  11. 122 kmGlibichka415 people
  12. 125 kmKam'ianka Rivertributary
  13. 126 kmFursy4,230 people
  14. 135 kmBila Tserkva208,944 people
  15. 138 kmProtokatributary
  16. 186 kmHorokhuvatkatributary
  17. 194 kmSavarka957 people
  18. 218 kmBohuslav15,789 people
  19. 250 kmStebliv3,350 people
  20. 267 kmKorsun-Shevchenkivskyi17,763 people
  21. 267 kmKorsun-Shevchenkivskyi hydroelectric power station
  22. 314 kmRosava Rivertributary
  23. 325 kmKaniv Reservoir470 km²
  24. 346 kmDnieperat 71 m

Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.

River in Ukraine

At the mouth it carries 22 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 111 seconds. It drops from 221 m to 71 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 12,575 km², about the size of QA. 19.1 million people live in it. Highest water: from May to July; lowest: from January to March. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (13% of a year's flow).

Read more on Wikipedia

Where to start

  • Bila TserkvaLargest city on its banks · 208,944 people
  • On the water5 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
  • Kayak and canoe5 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
  • From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit

Ros River, month by month

Highest water: from May to July

Lowest water: from January to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from January to February. Best months to visit: from May to September.

1,300
-5°41 mmJan
1,100
-4°39 mmFeb
1,500
0°33 mmMar
2,700
9°46 mmApr
2,900
15°52 mmMay
3,000
18°77 mmJun
2,800
20°83 mmJul
2,100
19°58 mmAug
2,000
14°47 mmSep
1,800
8°34 mmOct
1,800
2°43 mmNov
1,500
-2°46 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 1,100 m³/s in the lowest month to 3,000 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

Ros River: the basin in numbers

355,328 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Heavily regulatedReservoirs can hold 13% of a year's flow: dams shape its seasons.
  • 19.1millionpeople live in the basin
  • 55/km²people per km²
  • 176maverage altitude of the basin
  • 614mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 6.5°Caverage air temperature
  • 4%protected areas
  • 0.7%covered by lakes
  • 6.2km³held in reservoirs

What covers the basin

  • 29% Forest
  • 39% Cropland
  • 13% Pasture
  • 2% 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

Ros River: what you find on the way

  • 12Dams
  • 7Weirs
  • 13WaterfallsThe Tortoise Waterfall and 12 more
  • 5Rapids
  • 1Boat ramps
  • 1Ferry piers
  • 2Marinas
  • 1Boat rentals
  • 8River beaches

From OpenStreetMap, within 2.7 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Ros 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

  1. Kaniv Reservoirkm 296470km²

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From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Ros River: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Ros River: satellite view of the mouth
The mouth81 km across

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

Ros River in pictures

Ros river Sukholesi
Yuriy Mitin at Russian Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0

Tributaries

Where it flows, and what flows into it

It flows into

DnieperUkraineUkraine2,285 km1,700 m³/s

Tributaries (14)

Also: Rosava River, Rostavytsia, Kam'ianka River, Roska River, Orikhovatka, Protoka, Skvyrka, Bereznyanka, Horokhuvatka, Khorobra, Bakunka, Targan, Molochna, Torts

In the same basin

Pripyat RiverUkraineUkraine775 km460 m³/sDesnaUkraineUkraine1,130 km360 m³/sBerezinaBelarusBelarus613 km140 m³/sSeymUkraineUkraine696 km100 m³/sSozhBelarusBelarus648 km210 m³/sPselUkraineUkraine717 km55 m³/sHorynBelarusBelarus659 km110 m³/sVorsklaUkraineUkraine464 km36 m³/sStyr RiverBelarusBelarus494 km50 m³/sTeterivUkraineUkraine385 km18 m³/s

Nearby

Rivers nearby

Trubizh RiverUkraineUkraine113 km360 m³/s48 km awaySula RiverUkraineUkraine363 km29 m³/s73 km awayDesnaUkraineUkraine1,130 km360 m³/s134 km awayUday RiverUkraineUkraine342 km9.4 m³/s110 km awayPselUkraineUkraine717 km55 m³/s147 km awayPripyat RiverUkraineUkraine775 km460 m³/s195 km awayIrpin RiverUkraineUkraine162 km12 m³/s158 km awayKhorol RiverUkraineUkraine308 km3.6 m³/s148 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q1367245) · CC0
Course, profile, basinRiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata
FlowWaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Climate along the riverWorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Towns, bridges, damsWikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Along the river© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Our other atlasesLakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST

Every source and licence is on the data sources page.

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