River
Răut
286 km from source to mouth · Moldova.
MoldovaFlows into Dniester2nd longest in Moldova
In numbers
Length
286km
Average flow
320m³/s
Basin
7,760km²
Drop
129m
from 142 m to 13 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
286 km of river and 17 stops on the way: 9 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmNorthern Moldavian Plateauat 142 m
- 61 kmCopăceankatributary
- 69 kmSlobozia17,800 people
- 70 kmBălţi125,000 people
- 75 kmRăuțel Rivertributary
- 86 kmBiruinţa4,700 people
- 94 kmCuboltatributary
- 101 kmCăinaritributary
- 115 kmFloreşti16,759 people
- 164 kmKiwatributary
- 192 kmCiulucul Mictributary
- 221 kmKogylniktributary
- 228 kmOrhei24,918 people
- 281 kmDubăsari Reservoir35 km²
- 281 kmUstia3,295 people
- 282 kmDubăsari23,254 people
- 284 kmLunga3,217 people
- 284 kmCriuleni6,932 people
- 286 kmDniesterat 13 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Moldova
At the mouth it carries 318 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 7.9 seconds. It drops from 142 m to 13 m, 0.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 7,760 km², about the size of PR. 5.3 million people live in it. Highest water: from March to May; lowest: from December to February. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 60% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- BălţiLargest city on its banks · 125,000 people
- Iaşi International Airport (IAS)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 69 km from the cityCar hire at IAS airport (Iaşi)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Răut, month by month
Highest water: from March to May
Lowest water: from December to February. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 160 m³/s in the lowest month to 770 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
Răut: the basin in numbers
61,533 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 5.3millionpeople live in the basin
- 86/km²people per km²
- 321maverage altitude of the basin
- 660mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.7°Caverage air temperature
- 8%protected areas
- 0.5%covered by lakes
- 6.0km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 16% Forest
- 53% Cropland
- 7% Pasture
- 3% 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
Răut: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 4Waterfalls
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Răut 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
- Dubăsari Reservoirkm 236 · 19 m deep35km²
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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
Răut in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Dniester
Ukraine1,352 km310 m³/sTributaries (15)
Also: Cubolta, Răuțel River, Kogylnik, Copăceanka, Ciulucul Mic, Căinari, Dobrusa, Kiwa, Mottsa, Camenca, Iligach, Molovateț, Draghinici, Poparnitsa, Vatich
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Moldova155 km1.0 m³/s43 km awayJijia River
Romania275 km160 m³/s89 km awayDanubeRomania2,850 km5,400 m³/s225 km awayPrutMoldova953 km120 m³/s210 km awayMoldova RiverRomania205 km32 m³/s169 km awaySouthern BugUkraine806 km160 m³/s218 km awayDnieperUkraine2,285 km1,700 m³/s257 km awayBistrița RiverRomania272 km66 m³/s187 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1807338) · 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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