River
Salhyr
232 km from source to mouth · Ukraine and Russia.
Ukraine and RussiaFlows into Syvash Bay
In numbers
Length
232km
Average flow
2.0m³/s
Basin
3,750km²
Drop
373m
from 372 m to -1 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
232 km of river and 19 stops on the way: 13 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmChatyr-Dagat 372 m
- 0 kmPerevalne3,426 people
- 3 kmAyanske Reservoir0.3 km²
- 14 kmPionerskoye5,534 people
- 25 kmSimferopol Reservoir2.4 km²
- 30 kmSimferopol336,460 people
- 34 kmMaly Salhyrtributary
- 37 kmMirnoye9,284 people
- 40 kmMolodyozhnoye7,597 people
- 42 kmAhrarne3,754 people
- 44 kmKomsomol’skoye4,447 people
- 44 kmHresivskyi9,835 people
- 50 kmUkromnoye4,567 people
- 59 kmSofiivka3,481 people
- 63 kmHvardiyske12,589 people
- 84 kmZuyatributary
- 94 kmBiyuk-Onlar10,244 people
- 130 kmBurulchatributary
- 180 kmNizhnegorskiy8,741 people
- 190 kmBiyuk-Karasutributary
- 232 kmSyvash Bayat -1 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Crimea, Ukraine
At the mouth it carries 2.0 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 1,250 seconds. It drops from 372 m to -1 m, 1.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,750 km², about the size of CV. 539,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to January; lowest: August. Its dams hold back little of its water (6.7% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- SimferopolLargest city on its banks · 336,460 people
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Salhyr, month by month
Highest water: from December to January
Lowest water: August. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 5.3 m³/s in the lowest month to 41 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
Salhyr: the basin in numbers
4,031 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 539,000people live in the basin
- 135/km²people per km²
- 252maverage altitude of the basin
- 534mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.7°Caverage air temperature
- 2%protected areas
- 0.3%covered by lakes
- 0.0km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 12% Forest
- 59% Cropland
- 26% Pasture
- 5% 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
Salhyr: what you find on the way
- 10Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Salhyr 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
14mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Ayanske Reservoirkm 20.3km²
- Simferopol Reservoirkm 182.4km²
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Mountains at the source (14)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Tsukrova Holivka11 km away1,053m
- Zamana7.8 km away1,067m
- Yüke Töpe11 km away1,025m
- Eklizi-Burun13 km away
- Gora Angar-Burun12 km away
- Pivnichna Demerdzhi11 km away
- Pakhkal-Kaya10 km away
- South Demerdji15 km away
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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
Salhyr in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (12)
Also: Biyuk-Karasu, Zuya, Burulcha, Maly Salhyr, Kizilkobinka, Anhara, Ayan, Slovyanka, Kurtsy, Chuyunchi, Tavel, Dzhuma
Nearby
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Ukraine197 km12 m³/s111 km awayDnieperUkraine2,285 km1,700 m³/s223 km awayKubanRussia870 km420 m³/s192 km awayAlmaUkraine83 km1.2 m³/s143 km awayInhulets RiverUkraine549 km1,500 m³/s211 km awaySouthern BugUkraine806 km160 m³/s267 km awayKonka RiverUkraine149 km10 m³/s211 km awayKalmiusUkraine209 km8.2 m³/s253 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q737640) · 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, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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