River
Bâc
155 km from source to mouth · Moldova.
MoldovaFlows into Dniester3rd longest in Moldova
In numbers
Length
155km
Average flow
1.0m³/s
Basin
2,150km²
Drop
95m
from 100 m to 5 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
155 km of river and 14 stops on the way: 11 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 100 m
- 20 kmTuzara2,456 people
- 20 kmCălăraşi14,066 people
- 38 kmBucovăţ1,600 people
- 55 kmStrășeni19,225 people
- 70 kmGhidighici Reservoir6.6 km²
- 71 kmVatra3,800 people
- 84 kmChișinău567,038 people
- 88 kmChisinau635,994 people
- 103 kmSîngera7,200 people
- 104 kmIșnovățtributary
- 112 kmMerenii Noi1,514 people
- 129 kmAnenii Noi8,250 people
- 151 kmLake Salas2.7 km²
- 153 kmGura Bîcului3,401 people
- 155 kmDniesterat 5 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Moldova
At the mouth it carries 1.0 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 2,500 seconds. It drops from 100 m to 5 m, 0.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,150 km², about the size of KM. 789,000 people live in it. Highest water: March; lowest: from January to February and October. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- ChisinauLargest city on its banks · 635,994 people
- Chişinău International Airport (RMO)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 11 km from the cityCar hire at IAS airport (Iaşi)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water7 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Bâc, month by month
Highest water: March
Lowest water: from January to February and October. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 3.1 m³/s in the lowest month to 21 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
Bâc: the basin in numbers
2,171 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 789,000people live in the basin
- 367/km²people per km²
- 155maverage altitude of the basin
- 550mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.3°Caverage air temperature
- 5%protected areas
- 0.9%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 10% Forest
- 55% Cropland
- 10% Pasture
- 19% 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
Bâc: what you find on the way
- 1Marinas
- 3River beachesPlaja Ghidighici, Plaja „La Izvor”
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Bâc 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
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Ghidighici Reservoirkm 60 · 10 m deep6.6km²
- Lake Salaskm 1302.7km²
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Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Bălănești Hill3.2 km away430m
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
Bâc in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Dniester
Ukraine1,352 km310 m³/sTributaries (3)
Also: Ișnovăț, Calintir, Bucovăț
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Moldova286 km320 m³/s43 km awayDanube
Romania2,850 km5,400 m³/s186 km awayJijia RiverRomania275 km160 m³/s104 km awayPrutMoldova953 km120 m³/s187 km awayDnieperUkraine2,285 km1,700 m³/s226 km awaySouthern BugUkraine806 km160 m³/s192 km awaySiret RiverRomania740 km230 m³/s201 km awayMoldova RiverRomania205 km32 m³/s189 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q843343) · 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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