River
Wieprz
328 km from source to mouth · Poland.
PolandFlows into Vistula8th longest in Poland
In numbers
Length
328km
Average flow
490m³/s
Basin
10,700km²
Drop
150m
from 256 m to 106 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
328 km of river and 18 stops on the way: 8 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmWieprzów Ordynackiat 256 m
- 8 kmKrasnobród3,075 people
- 37 kmZwierzyniec3,297 people
- 52 kmSzczebrzeszyn5,255 people
- 69 kmPórtributary
- 73 kmNielisz Lake4.4 km²
- 79 kmŁabuńkatributary
- 103 kmWolicatributary
- 105 kmWojsławkatributary
- 110 kmKrasnystaw19,532 people
- 150 kmGiełczewkatributary
- 178 kmŁęczna21,719 people
- 196 kmBystrzycatributary
- 217 kmLubartów22,839 people
- 219 kmŻelaźniak
- 253 kmKock3,484 people
- 268 kmMininatributary
- 268 kmTyśmienicatributary
- 321 kmDęblin14,791 people
- 328 kmVistulaat 106 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Poland, right tributary of the Vistula
At the mouth it carries 494 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 5.1 seconds. It drops from 256 m to 106 m, 0.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 10,700 km², about the size of XK. 11.0 million people live in it. Highest water: from March to May; lowest: from January to February. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (10% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- LubartówLargest city on its banks · 22,839 people
- Lublin Airport (LUZ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 26 km from the cityCar hire at LUZ airport (Lublin)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water23 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe6 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Wieprz, month by month
Highest water: from March to May
Lowest water: from January to February. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): January. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 320 m³/s in the lowest month to 930 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
Wieprz: the basin in numbers
67,775 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 11.0millionpeople live in the basin
- 162/km²people per km²
- 314maverage altitude of the basin
- 664mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.3°Caverage air temperature
- 24%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 1.6km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 33% Forest
- 45% Cropland
- 14% Pasture
- 9% 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
Wieprz: what you find on the way
- 13Weirs
- 1Locks
- 6Canoe put-insPrzystań nad Wieprzem - spływy kajakowe, Spływy kajakowe and 4 more
- 6Boat ramps
- 4MarinasWólka Rokicka, Przystań Kajakowa w Szczekarkowie and 2 more
- 3River beachesKąpielisko "Moczydło", Resort "Marina", Plaża Żydowska
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Wieprz 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
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Nielisz Lakekm 534.4km²
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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
Wieprz in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
VistulaPoland1,047 km1,100 m³/sTributaries (11)
Also: Bystrzyca, Tyśmienica, Pór, Wolica, Giełczewka, Wojsławka, Łabuńka, Żółkiewka, Minina, Siennica, Świnka
Nearby
Rivers nearby
BelarusWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1130403) · 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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