River
Bosut
186 km from source to mouth · Serbia and Croatia.
Serbia and CroatiaFlows into Sava9th longest in Serbia
In numbers
Length
186km
Average flow
17m³/s
Basin
3,097km²
Drop
20m
from 94 m to 74 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
186 km of river and 8 stops on the way: 6 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 94 m
- 3 kmSelci Ðakovački1,412 people
- 15 kmPiškorevci1,434 people
- 16 kmStrizivojna2,027 people
- 21 kmBudrovci1,107 people
- 159 kmStudvatributary
- 172 kmVišnjićevo2,030 people
- 185 kmBosut1,311 people
- 186 kmSpačvatributary
- 186 kmSavaat 74 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Croatia
At the mouth it carries 17 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 144 seconds. It drops from 94 m to 74 m, 0.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,097 km², about the size of LU. 177,000 people live in it. Highest water: December. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- VišnjićevoLargest city on its banks · 2,030 people
- Osijek Airport (OSI)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 67 km from the cityCar hire at OSI airport (Osijek)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Bosut, month by month
Highest water: December
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 7.6 m³/s in the lowest month to 33 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.
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The basin
Bosut: the basin in numbers
2,720 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 177,000people live in the basin
- 65/km²people per km²
- 98maverage altitude of the basin
- 738mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 11.1°Caverage air temperature
- 0.1%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 27% Forest
- 49% Cropland
- 23% 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
Bosut: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Bosut 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.
2mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (2)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Zlatarovac10 km away
- Okmanov Breg15 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
Bosut in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
SavaSerbia945 km1,700 m³/sTributaries (2)
Also: Studva, Spačva
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
Rivers nearby
Serbia346 km120 m³/s5 km awayTiszaSerbia966 km800 m³/s74 km awayDravaCroatia720 km620 m³/s76 km awayBosna
Bosnia and Herzegovina282 km140 m³/s72 km awayTimiș RiverSerbia359 km47 m³/s100 km awayBega River
Romania256 km13 m³/s78 km awayGreat MoravaSerbia185 km230 m³/s134 km awayMureș River
Hungary803 km160 m³/s154 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2911647) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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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