River
Sula River
363 km from source to mouth · Ukraine.
UkraineFlows into Dnieper
In numbers
Length
363km
Average flow
29m³/s
Basin
18,500km²
Drop
68m
from 145 m to 77 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
363 km of river and 17 stops on the way: 10 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmCentral Russian Uplandat 145 m
- 48 kmTerntributary
- 66 kmNedryhailiv5,323 people
- 109 kmRomen Rivertributary
- 111 kmRomny38,305 people
- 125 kmBilovod1,011 people
- 136 kmOlavatributary
- 175 kmLuka1,480 people
- 178 kmGiriavi Iskivtsi1,040 people
- 186 kmLokhvytsya11,014 people
- 186 kmLokhvytsiatributary
- 195 kmZavodske7,832 people
- 208 kmArtopolottributary
- 216 kmKhristanivka164 people
- 261 kmUday Rivertributary
- 276 kmLubny44,595 people
- 277 kmZasullia4,544 people
- 291 kmSliporidtributary
- 363 kmDnieperat 77 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 29 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 86 seconds. It drops from 145 m to 77 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 18,500 km², about the size of FJ. 622,000 people live in it. Highest water: from April to June; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- LubnyLargest city on its banks · 44,595 people
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Sula River, month by month
Highest water: from April to June
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from January to February. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 13 m³/s in the lowest month to 160 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
Sula River: the basin in numbers
18,061 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 622,000people live in the basin
- 34/km²people per km²
- 136maverage altitude of the basin
- 599mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.6°Caverage air temperature
- 3%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 3% Forest
- 70% Cropland
- 9% Pasture
- 1% 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
Sula River: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 2Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.0 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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
Sula River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
DnieperUkraine2,285 km1,700 m³/sTributaries (11)
Also: Romen River, Sliporid, Tern, Оржиця, Lokhvytsia, Artopolot, Bahachka, Loknya, Olava, Rudka
BelarusNearby
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Ukraine717 km55 m³/s82 km awayRos RiverUkraine346 km22 m³/s73 km awayUday RiverUkraine342 km9.4 m³/s66 km awayKhorol RiverUkraine308 km3.6 m³/s76 km awayVorsklaUkraine464 km36 m³/s122 km awayTrubizh RiverUkraine113 km360 m³/s109 km awayDesnaUkraine1,130 km360 m³/s195 km awaySeymUkraine696 km100 m³/s215 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1501150) · 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 |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
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