River
Uzh
256 km from source to mouth · Ukraine.
UkraineFlows into Kyiv Reservoir
In numbers
Length
256km
Average flow
520m³/s
Basin
8,080km²
Drop
106m
from 205 m to 99 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
256 km of river and 10 stops on the way: 6 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmYemilchyne Raionat 205 m
- 30 kmBilka562 people
- 66 kmMogylyanka Rivertributary
- 77 kmKorosten61,496 people
- 84 kmVoroneve166 people
- 88 kmBekhi553 people
- 92 kmBardi53 people
- 104 kmDidkovychi531 people
- 105 kmLoznytsiatributary
- 134 kmZherev Rivertributary
- 154 kmNorintributary
- 256 kmKyiv Reservoirat 99 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Northern Ukraine
At the mouth it carries 525 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 4.8 seconds. It drops from 205 m to 99 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 8,080 km², about the size of PR. 4.5 million people live in it. Highest water: from May to July; lowest: from January to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- KorostenLargest city on its banks · 61,496 people
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Uzh, 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.
From about 330 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,200 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
Uzh: the basin in numbers
118,715 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 4.5millionpeople live in the basin
- 38/km²people per km²
- 177maverage altitude of the basin
- 619mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.0°Caverage air temperature
- 6%protected areas
- 0.5%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 32% Forest
- 31% Cropland
- 12% 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
Uzh: what you find on the way
- 9Weirs
- 1Locks
- 4WaterfallsBridge and 3 more
- 1River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.4 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
Uzh in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (10)
Also: Zherev River, Norin, Bober, Uzha, Liznytsya, Mogylyanka River, Brodets', Bilka, Loznytsia, Bastova River, Mostva River
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Ukraine775 km460 m³/s15 km awayTeterivUkraine385 km18 m³/s24 km awayDesnaUkraine1,130 km360 m³/s80 km awayIrpin RiverUkraine162 km12 m³/s56 km awaySozh
Belarus648 km210 m³/s85 km awayOster RiverUkraine199 km3.2 m³/s53 km awaySnovUkraine253 km24 m³/s91 km awayBerezinaBelarus613 km140 m³/s144 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1757262) · 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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