River
Horyn
659 km from source to mouth · Belarus and Ukraine.
Belarus and UkraineFlows into Pripyat River1st longest in Belarus
In numbers
Length
659km
Average flow
110m³/s
Basin
27,700km²
Drop
140m
from 264 m to 124 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
659 km of river and 10 stops on the way: 9 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmKremenets Raionat 264 m
- 35 kmMlynivtsi430 people
- 131 kmDubno37,257 people
- 157 kmMlyniv8,228 people
- 214 kmPidhaytsi3,085 people
- 221 kmLutsk215,986 people
- 256 kmRozhyshche13,280 people
- 284 kmLukiv3,043 people
- 384 kmVarash42,000 people
- 428 kmOstrovats'ke Lake0.5 km²
- 475 kmZarichne7,336 people
- 659 kmPripyat Riverat 124 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Ukraine and Belarus
At the mouth it carries 110 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 23 seconds. It drops from 264 m to 124 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 27,700 km², about the size of HT. 1.7 million people live in it. Highest water: from April to June; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- LutskLargest city on its banks · 215,986 people
- Brest International Airport (BQT)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 181 km from the cityCar hire at LWO airport (Lviv)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water4 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Horyn, month by month
Highest water: from April to June
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from January to February. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 97 m³/s in the lowest month to 380 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
Horyn: the basin in numbers
39,421 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.7millionpeople live in the basin
- 44/km²people per km²
- 173maverage altitude of the basin
- 593mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.1°Caverage air temperature
- 7%protected areas
- 0.6%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 29% Forest
- 32% Cropland
- 16% Pasture
- 1% 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
Horyn: what you find on the way
- 5WeirsFishing Dam and 4 more
- 7Locks
- 4Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Horyn 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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Ostrovats'ke Lakekm 2990.5km²
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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
Horyn in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Pripyat RiverUkraine775 km460 m³/sTributaries (14)
Also: Viliya, Ustia River, Syrets, Ponora, Zhyrak, río Stubazka, Horynka, Polva, Zamchysko, Zulnya, Tsvitokha, Chakva, Dobryn (river)
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Belarus494 km50 m³/s48 km awaySlučBelarus228 km20 m³/s17 km awayJasieĺda RiverBelarus250 km36 m³/s55 km awaySluch RiverUkraine451 km60 m³/s71 km awayUbortBelarus292 km23 m³/s81 km awayPcičBelarus421 km48 m³/s108 km awayBerezinaBelarus613 km140 m³/s205 km awaySvislach RiverBelarus327 km24 m³/s183 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1134536) · 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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