River
Svislach River
327 km from source to mouth · Belarus.
BelarusFlows into Berezina7th longest in Belarus
In numbers
Length
327km
Average flow
24m³/s
Basin
5,160km²
Drop
75m
from 212 m to 137 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
327 km of river and 48 stops on the way: 37 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmMayakat 212 m
- 0 kmZaslawye17,166 people
- 11 kmZaslawye Reservoir26 km²
- 12 kmViačatributary
- 14 kmZhdanovichy5,000 people
- 19 kmDrazdy Reservoir3.5 km²
- 28 kmZacharjeŭski Bridge
- 29 kmMinsk1,742,124 people
- 40 kmChizhovskoye Reservoir1.4 km²
- 49 kmHatava8,000 people
- 56 kmSinialo221 people
- 61 kmLysoŭščyna18 people
- 62 kmVańkoŭščyna48 people
- 63 kmLiešnica132 people
- 65 kmSininki59 people
- 66 kmPiaski105 people
- 67 kmTakarnia25 people
- 70 kmJasnaŭka57 people
- 73 kmZabičany213 people
- 78 kmKaravajeva235 people
- 80 kmDruzhny8,978 people
- 81 kmMaciarynskaje Lake, Puchavičy District0.6 km²
- 82 kmSvislach4,200 people
- 86 kmDukora1,331 people
- 97 kmStary Dvor18 people
- 100 kmAnaničy56 people
- 101 kmChočyn8 people
- 103 kmSitniki393 people
- 105 kmSlabada120 people
- 106 kmŠkavilaŭka35 people
- 110 kmTuryn376 people
- 113 kmSvaboda13 people
- 114 kmSvietly Bor786 people
- 115 kmMižrečča31 people
- 116 kmVolmatributary
- 118 kmHluška70 people
- 118 kmPadsobnaje8 people
- 119 kmPiestun1 people
- 122 kmPuchavičy1,938 people
- 123 kmCitaŭkatributary
- 123 kmZacitava Slabada390 people
- 131 kmBalačankatributary
- 132 kmBlužski Bor5 people
- 136 kmHoradzień26 people
- 140 kmTaĺkatributary
- 140 kmAreškavičy242 people
- 141 kmCierabuty35 people
- 143 kmVialikaje Polie10 people
- 170 kmAsipovickaje5.3 km²
- 200 kmBerezinaat 137 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Belarus
At the mouth it carries 24 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 103 seconds. It drops from 212 m to 137 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 5,160 km², about the size of TT. 2.5 million people live in it. Highest water: from April to June; lowest: from January to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- MinskLargest city on its banks · 1,742,124 people
- Minsk National Airport (MSQ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 31 km from the cityCar hire at VNO airport (Vilnius)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water20 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Svislach River, month by month
Highest water: from April to June
Lowest water: from January to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from January to February. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 48 m³/s in the lowest month to 320 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
Svislach River: the basin in numbers
17,818 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 2.5millionpeople live in the basin
- 140/km²people per km²
- 184maverage altitude of the basin
- 636mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 5.9°Caverage air temperature
- 5%protected areas
- 0.5%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 48% Forest
- 26% Cropland
- 10% 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
Svislach River: what you find on the way
- 28Weirs
- 1Locks
- 2Waterfalls
- 5Boat ramps
- 1Ferry piers
- 10Marinas
- 16River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.9 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Svislach 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.
5lakes on its wayLakeyas
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (5)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Zaslawye Reservoirkm 1126km²
- Drazdy Reservoirkm 193.5km²
- Chizhovskoye Reservoirkm 401.4km²
- Maciarynskaje Lake, Puchavičy Districtkm 81 · 2 m deep0.6km²
- Asipovickajekm 1705.3km²
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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
Svislach River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
BerezinaBelarus613 km140 m³/sTributaries (11)
Also: Volma, Loshytsa, Citaŭka, Viača, Taĺka, Cna river, Balačanka, Botča, Žycinka, Traścianka, Sliepnia
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q875547) · 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 | Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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