River
Alma
83 km from source to mouth · Ukraine and Russia.
Ukraine and RussiaFlows into Gulf of Kalamita
In numbers
Length
83km
Average flow
1.2m³/s
Basin
635km²
Drop
349m
from 349 m to 0 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
83 km of river and 8 stops on the way: 5 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmCrimean Mountainsat 349 m
- 19 kmPartizansk Reservoir1.5 km²
- 21 kmKashtanove1,028 people
- 31 kmSkalistoye2,997 people
- 32 kmPoshtove3,086 people
- 34 kmAlma Reservoir0.8 km²
- 37 kmBodraktributary
- 48 kmPlodovoye1,090 people
- 73 kmVilino6,960 people
- 83 kmGulf of Kalamitaat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Crimea
At the mouth it carries 1.2 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 2,083 seconds. It drops from 349 m to 0 m, 4.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 635 km².
Where to start
- VilinoLargest city on its banks · 6,960 people
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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Along the river
Alma: what you find on the way
- 4Weirs
- 13River beachesAlma Park, Buddha Beach and 11 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Alma 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.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
24mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Partizansk Reservoirkm 131.5km²
- Alma Reservoirkm 230.8km²
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Mountains at the source (24)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Roman-Kosh7.0 km away · prominence 1,541 m1,545m
- Demir-Kapu11 km away1,540m
- Tas-Tepe7.6 km away1,538m
- Gora Zeytin-Kosh6.2 km away1,511m
- Hora Roman-Kosh7.1 km away1,415m
- Kush-kaya4.9 km away1,339m
- Ayu-Dag13 km away572m
- Tsukrova Holivka10 km away1,053m
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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
Alma in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (8)
Also: Bodrak, Mavlya River, Kosa, Sary-Su, Sukha Al'ma, Eski-Qıshlav, Piskur, Uskular
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Ukraine2,285 km1,700 m³/s209 km awaySalhyrUkraine232 km2.0 m³/s143 km awayInhulets RiverUkraine549 km1,500 m³/s211 km awayDanube
Romania2,850 km5,400 m³/s309 km awaySouthern BugUkraine806 km160 m³/s259 km awayDniesterUkraine1,352 km310 m³/s302 km awayMolochnaUkraine197 km12 m³/s240 km awayKubanRussia870 km420 m³/s305 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q864843) · 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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