River
Kalchyk
88 km from source to mouth · Ukraine and Russia.
Ukraine and RussiaFlows into Kalmius
In numbers
Length
88km
Average flow
27m³/s
Basin
1,263km²
Drop
96m
from 95 m to -1 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
88 km of river and 10 stops on the way: 8 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmUkraineat 95 m
- 16 kmMaloianysol1,968 people
- 36 kmKremenivka1,092 people
- 47 kmMalyy Kal'chyktributary
- 58 kmStarokrymsk Reservoir2.8 km²
- 63 kmStaryi Krym5,977 people
- 72 kmAerodrom9,085 people
- 76 kmKalmiuskyi101,498 people
- 80 kmPravyi Bereh352,088 people
- 86 kmTsentralnyi179,582 people
- 87 kmMariupol230,000 people
- 88 kmKalmiusat -1 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Ukraine
At the mouth it carries 27 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 91 seconds. It drops from 95 m to -1 m, 1.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,263 km², about the size of MQ. 1.6 million people live in it. Highest water: from March to April; lowest: from December to February and October. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Pravyi BerehLargest city on its banks · 352,088 people
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Kalchyk, month by month
Highest water: from March to April
Lowest water: from December to February and October. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 8.0 m³/s in the lowest month to 110 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
Kalchyk: the basin in numbers
5,021 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.6millionpeople live in the basin
- 323/km²people per km²
- 147maverage altitude of the basin
- 522mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.0°Caverage air temperature
- 0.7%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 2% Forest
- 60% Cropland
- 19% Pasture
- 15% 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
Kalchyk: what you find on the way
- 8Weirs
- 1River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Kalchyk 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
- Starokrymsk Reservoirkm 472.8km²
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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
Kalchyk in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
KalmiusUkraine209 km8.2 m³/sTributaries (2)
Also: Malyy Kal'chyk, Kalets
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Russia1,870 km940 m³/s127 km awayKubanRussia870 km420 m³/s194 km awayMolochnaUkraine197 km12 m³/s180 km awayOskilUkraine472 km44 m³/s223 km awayDonetsRussia1,053 km160 m³/s256 km awayKonka RiverUkraine149 km10 m³/s193 km awayAidarUkraine264 km15 m³/s221 km awaySamara RiverUkraine320 km17 m³/s238 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q776961) · 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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