River
Ščara
325 km from source to mouth · Belarus.
BelarusFlows into Neman8th longest in Belarus
In numbers
Length
325km
Average flow
31m³/s
Basin
9,990km²
Drop
74m
from 180 m to 106 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
325 km of river and 9 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 180 m
- 46 kmViedźmatributary
- 76 kmRepichava0.9 km²
- 107 kmVyhanaščanskaje25 km²
- 129 kmMyšankatributary
- 156 kmDamanaŭskaje0.8 km²
- 160 kmHrywdatributary
- 220 kmSlonim48,402 people
- 264 kmBiarozatributary
- 264 kmLukonіtsatributary
- 325 kmNemanat 106 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Belarus
At the mouth it carries 31 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 81 seconds. It drops from 180 m to 106 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 9,990 km², about the size of LB. 940,000 people live in it. Highest water: from April to June; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- SlonimLargest city on its banks · 48,402 people
- Brest International Airport (BQT)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 145 km from the cityCar hire at VNO airport (Vilnius)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Ščara, month by month
Highest water: from April to June
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from January to February. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 81 m³/s in the lowest month to 490 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
Ščara: the basin in numbers
25,098 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 940,000people live in the basin
- 37/km²people per km²
- 177maverage altitude of the basin
- 644mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 6.3°Caverage air temperature
- 9%protected areas
- 0.3%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 30% Forest
- 35% Cropland
- 16% Pasture
- 1% 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
Ščara: what you find on the way
- 8Weirs
- 1Locks
- 3Waterfalls
- 1Ferry piers
- 1River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.0 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Ščara 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.
3lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (3)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Repichavakm 570.9km²
- Vyhanaščanskajekm 81 · 3 m deep25km²
- Damanaŭskajekm 1180.8km²
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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
Ščara in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Neman
Lithuania937 km680 m³/sTributaries (14)
Also: Hrywda, Myšanka, Isa, Viedźma, Biaroza, Lukonіtsa, Sіpa, Artyčanka, Lachazva, Tritsevka, Vaŭčanka, Babačka, Biareznica, Chitraja
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Lithuania206 km33 m³/s86 km awayCzarna HańczaLithuania145 km220 m³/s79 km awayNerisLithuania510 km180 m³/s173 km awayBiebrza
Poland155 km76 m³/s154 km awayVilniaLithuania80 km5.6 m³/s146 km awayMukhavets RiverBelarus113 km34 m³/s163 km awayNevėžisLithuania210 km33 m³/s179 km awayStyr RiverBelarus494 km50 m³/s196 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1117401) · 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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