River
Yantra
286 km from source to mouth · Bulgaria.
BulgariaFlows into Danube3rd longest in Bulgaria
In numbers
Length
286km
Average flow
37m³/s
Basin
7,862km²
Drop
326m
from 341 m to 15 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
286 km of river and 10 stops on the way: 5 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmBalkan Mountainsat 341 m
- 6 kmTryavna13,818 people
- 24 kmDryanovo8,346 people
- 41 kmDebelets4,418 people
- 47 kmVeliko Tŭrnovo59,166 people
- 48 kmStambolov Bridge
- 49 kmBishop's Bridge
- 81 kmStara reka (Yantra)tributary
- 104 kmRosicatributary
- 116 kmPolski Trambesh5,663 people
- 133 kmBelenski most
- 170 kmDanubeat 15 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Bulgaria
At the mouth it carries 37 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 68 seconds. It drops from 341 m to 15 m, 1.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 7,862 km², about the size of PR. 400,000 people live in it. Highest water: February and April. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (33% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- Veliko TŭrnovoLargest city on its banks · 59,166 people
- Plovdiv International Airport (PDV)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 130 km from the cityCar hire at PDV airport (Plovdiv)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Yantra, month by month
Highest water: February and April
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 18 m³/s in the lowest month to 89 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
Yantra: the basin in numbers
7,897 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 400,000people live in the basin
- 51/km²people per km²
- 379maverage altitude of the basin
- 628mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.1°Caverage air temperature
- 10%protected areas
- 0.3%covered by lakes
- 0.4km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 45% Forest
- 29% Cropland
- 19% 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
Yantra: what you find on the way
- 14Weirs
- 5WaterfallsKartala waterfall and 4 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.7 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Yantra 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.
8mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (8)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Hadzhi Dimitar Peak2.3 km away1,441m
- Bedek1.7 km away1,487m
- Shipka (peak)8.0 km away1,329m
- Trevnenska Planina11 km away1,330m
- Orlovo Gnezdo7.9 km away1,323m
- Stoletov8.0 km away1,189m
- Ispolin14 km away1,177m
- Shipka Mountain14 km away
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
Yantra in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Danube
Romania2,850 km5,400 m³/sTributaries (2)
Also: Rosica, Stara reka (Yantra)
Serbia
Croatia
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
Rivers nearby
Romania224 km8.4 m³/s0 km awayOlt RiverRomania615 km170 m³/s62 km awayOsamBulgaria314 km13 m³/s58 km awayIskarBulgaria368 km54 m³/s91 km awayArgeș RiverRomania350 km73 m³/s96 km awayVitBulgaria189 km14 m³/s66 km awayDâmbovița RiverRomania286 km19 m³/s99 km awayJiu RiverRomania331 km94 m³/s142 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q217126) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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