River
Dzisna
178 km from source to mouth · Belarus and Lithuania.
Belarus and LithuaniaFlows into Daugava
In numbers
Length
178km
Average flow
52m³/s
Basin
8,180km²
Drop
34m
from 141 m to 107 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
178 km of river and 17 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 141 m
- 2 kmDysnai23 km²
- 8 kmDysnykštis5.2 km²
- 14 kmKurtinys0.8 km²
- 15 kmMunas0.3 km²
- 60 kmDrysviatatributary
- 85 kmBirvėtatributary
- 90 kmAsviata0.4 km²
- 94 kmHalbicatributary
- 110 kmSharkovshchina5,945 people
- 116 kmBiarozaŭkatributary
- 116 kmYankatributary
- 125 kmOzero Kortseja0.3 km²
- 133 kmHiermanavičy564 people
- 134 kmCiareški16 people
- 165 kmJaĺniankatributary
- 177 kmBridge over the Dzisna River in Dzisna
- 177 kmAvutatributary
- 178 kmDaugavaat 107 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Belarus and Lithuania
At the mouth it carries 52 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 48 seconds. It drops from 141 m to 107 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 8,180 km², about the size of PR. 150,000 people live in it. Highest water: from April to June; lowest: from January to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- SharkovshchinaLargest city on its banks · 5,945 people
- Vilnius International Airport (VNO)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 161 km from the cityCar hire at VNO airport (Vilnius)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to AugustThe best months to visit
Dzisna, month by month
Highest water: from April to June
Lowest water: from January to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from January to February. Best months to visit: from May to August.
From about 32 m³/s in the lowest month to 170 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
Dzisna: the basin in numbers
8,449 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 150,000people live in the basin
- 18/km²people per km²
- 155maverage altitude of the basin
- 641mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 5.7°Caverage air temperature
- 10%protected areas
- 2.8%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 32% Forest
- 43% Cropland
- 14% Pasture
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
Dzisna: what you find on the way
- 2Ferry piers
- 1River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.8 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Dzisna 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.
6lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (6)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Dysnaikm 2 · 6 m deep23km²
- Dysnykštiskm 85.2km²
- Kurtinyskm 130.8km²
- Munaskm 140.3km²
- Asviatakm 860.4km²
- Ozero Kortsejakm 1190.3km²
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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
Dzisna in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Daugava
Latvia1,020 km680 m³/sTributaries (11)
Also: Birvėta, Avuta, Mnjuta, Drysviata, Halbica, Biarozaŭka, Yanka, Jaĺnianka, Macica, Biareža, Raŭkieta
In the same basin
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Latvia114 km1.8 m³/s192 km awayVilniaLithuania80 km5.6 m³/s210 km awayVelikaya
Russia430 km130 m³/s260 km awaySvislach RiverBelarus327 km24 m³/s242 km awayNerisLithuania510 km180 m³/s287 km awayŠventojiLithuania246 km55 m³/s251 km awayGaujaLatvia453 km71 m³/s301 km awayPiusa River
Estonia109 km5.1 m³/s268 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q432399) · 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 — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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