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Oril River

346 km from source to mouth · Ukraine.

UkraineUkraineFlows into Dnieper Reservoir

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The river and every tributary in its basin, drawn from RiverATLAS (CC BY 4.0).

In numbers

Length

346km

Average flow

13m³/s

Basin

9,800km²

Drop

97m

from 120 m to 23 m

Country

1

The journey

From source to mouth

346 km of river and 18 stops on the way: 12 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

120 m23 m
Sourceat 120 m0 km
Orilkatributary48 km
Bahata Rivertributary96 km
Berestovátributary142 km
Ozero Lyman (lanaw sa Ukranya, Dnipropetrovska Oblast')0.5 km²144 km
Nekhvoroshcha2,538 people194 km
Tsarychanka7,328 people238 km
Mohyliv4,097 people248 km
Kamyanske226,845 people311 km
Dnieper Reservoirat 23 m346 km
0100200300346 km
  1. 0 kmSourceat 120 m
  2. 48 kmOrilkatributary
  3. 96 kmBahata Rivertributary
  4. 112 kmPereshchepyne9,720 people
  5. 142 kmBerestovátributary
  6. 144 kmOzero Lyman (lanaw sa Ukranya, Dnipropetrovska Oblast')0.5 km²
  7. 154 kmOrchyktributary
  8. 194 kmNekhvoroshcha2,538 people
  9. 238 kmTsarychanka7,328 people
  10. 248 kmMohyliv4,097 people
  11. 282 kmVerkhnodniprovsk15,477 people
  12. 294 kmDniprovske5,554 people
  13. 304 kmLivyi Bereh71,809 people
  14. 305 kmKamianske Reservoir507 km²
  15. 311 kmKamyanske226,845 people
  16. 317 kmBalivka2,777 people
  17. 326 kmKarnaukhivka6,634 people
  18. 329 kmTaromske13,289 people
  19. 343 kmNovi Kodaky15,000 people
  20. 346 kmDnieper Reservoirat 23 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 13 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 189 seconds. It drops from 120 m to 23 m, 0.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 9,800 km², about the size of CY. 23.2 million people live in it. Highest water: from April to June; lowest: from January to March. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (40% of a year's flow).

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Where to start

  • KamyanskeLargest city on its banks · 226,845 people
  • On the water12 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
  • From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit

Oril River, 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 September.

1,500
-5°44 mmJan
1,200
-4°36 mmFeb
1,500
0°32 mmMar
3,300
9°38 mmApr
3,400
16°45 mmMay
3,400
20°60 mmJun
3,000
22°57 mmJul
1,800
21°41 mmAug
1,800
15°40 mmSep
1,800
9°36 mmOct
2,000
2°42 mmNov
1,800
-2°47 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 1,200 m³/s in the lowest month to 3,400 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

Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car

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The basin

Oril River: the basin in numbers

440,301 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Heavily regulatedReservoirs can hold 40% of a year's flow: dams shape its seasons.
  • 23.2millionpeople live in the basin
  • 54/km²people per km²
  • 168maverage altitude of the basin
  • 606mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 6.7°Caverage air temperature
  • 4%protected areas
  • 1.2%covered by lakes
  • 22km³held in reservoirs

What covers the basin

  • 25% Forest
  • 44% Cropland
  • 13% 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

Oril River: what you find on the way

  • 19Dams
  • 1Weirs
  • 2Locks
  • 2Ferry piers
  • 3Marinas
  • 7Boat rentalsRiver Travels, TravelKayakDnipro and 5 more
  • 5River beachesCity beach, Eastern richport beach and 3 more

From OpenStreetMap, within 2.8 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Oril River 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

Lakes and reservoirs (2)

Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas

  1. Ozero Lyman (lanaw sa Ukranya, Dnipropetrovska Oblast')km 1310.5km²
  2. Kamianske Reservoirkm 277507km²

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From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Oril River: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Oril River: satellite view of the mouth
The mouth90 km across

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

Oril River in pictures

Река Орель новое русло
Novoklimov · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Oril (Оріль) is a river in Ukraine, a left tributary of Dnipro 01
Novoklimov · CC0

Tributaries

Where it flows, and what flows into it

Tributaries (8)

Also: Berestová, Orilka, Orchyk, Bahata River, Bahatenka, Mokra Zaplavka, Lyp’yánka, Chiróka Kíl’chen’ka

In the same basin

DnieperUkraineUkraine2,285 km1,700 m³/sPripyat RiverUkraineUkraine775 km460 m³/sDesnaUkraineUkraine1,130 km360 m³/sBerezinaBelarusBelarus613 km140 m³/sSeymUkraineUkraine696 km100 m³/sSozhBelarusBelarus648 km210 m³/sPselUkraineUkraine717 km55 m³/sHorynBelarusBelarus659 km110 m³/sVorsklaUkraineUkraine464 km36 m³/sStyr RiverBelarusBelarus494 km50 m³/s

Nearby

Rivers nearby

Samara RiverUkraineUkraine320 km17 m³/s16 km awayVorsklaUkraineUkraine464 km36 m³/s73 km awayVovchaUkraineUkraine336 km5.3 m³/s59 km awayPselUkraineUkraine717 km55 m³/s115 km awayKonka RiverUkraineUkraine149 km10 m³/s104 km awayKhorol RiverUkraineUkraine308 km3.6 m³/s135 km awayOskilUkraineUkraine472 km44 m³/s197 km awaySula RiverUkraineUkraine363 km29 m³/s195 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q2630027) · CC0
Course, profile, basinRiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata
FlowWaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Climate along the riverWorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Towns, bridges, damsWikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Along the river© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Our other atlasesLakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST

Every source and licence is on the data sources page.

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