River
Psou
53 km from source to mouth · Georgia and Russia.
Georgia and RussiaFlows into Black Sea
In numbers
Length
53km
Average flow
19m³/s
Basin
421km²
Drop
695m
from 694 m to -1 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
53 km of river and 1 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmGreater Caucasusat 694 m
- 5 kmWaterfall Bezymyanny
- 53 kmBlack Seaat -1 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Russia and Georgia
At the mouth it carries 19 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 130 seconds. It drops from 694 m to -1 m, 13 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 421 km².
Where to start
- KheivaniLargest city on its banks · 3,096 people
- Sochi International Airport (AER)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 10 km from the cityCar hire at BUS airport (Batumi)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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Along the river
Psou: what you find on the way
- 4Waterfalls
- 2River beachesPsou Beach (closed area)
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Psou 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.
1waterfall on the riverCascadyas
16mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Waterfall Bezymyannykm 4
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Mountains at the source (16)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Agepsta4.8 km away · prominence 1,160 m3,257m
- Aibiga Ridge14 km away2,509m
- Akhagi12 km away2,732m
- Akh-Ag12 km away2,732m
- Atsetuka13 km away2,538m
- Pshegishkhva11 km away2,221m
- Rosa Khutor Peak 232012 km away2,209m
- Gora Lysaya6.4 km away2,102m
8 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
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.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (1)
Also: Mendelikha
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Georgia110 km97 m³/s32 km awayKodori RiverGeorgia84 km140 m³/s113 km awayRioniGeorgia327 km400 m³/s187 km awayEnguriGeorgia213 km40 m³/s168 km awayÇoruhGeorgia438 km280 m³/s236 km awayTskhenistsqaliGeorgia184 km90 m³/s234 km awayKubanRussia870 km420 m³/s300 km awayQvirila RiverGeorgia140 km90 m³/s260 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q501454) · 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 | Cascadyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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