River
Sluč
228 km from source to mouth · Belarus.
BelarusFlows into Pripyat River
In numbers
Length
228km
Average flow
20m³/s
Basin
5,260km²
Drop
34m
from 156 m to 122 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
228 km of river and 7 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 156 m
- 4 kmVodochranilisjtje Rudnjanskoje3.3 km²
- 47 kmSlutsk58,995 people
- 50 kmLakniejatributary
- 96 kmSoligorsk96,418 people
- 107 kmSalihorskaje Reservoir12 km²
- 109 kmStarobin6,000 people
- 138 kmMoračtributary
- 228 kmPripyat Riverat 122 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 20 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 123 seconds. It drops from 156 m to 122 m, 0.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 5,260 km², about the size of TT. 191,000 people live in it. Highest water: April; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- SoligorskLargest city on its banks · 96,418 people
- Minsk National Airport (MSQ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 127 km from the cityCar hire at VNO airport (Vilnius)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Sluč, month by month
Highest water: April
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 15 m³/s in the lowest month to 49 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
Sluč: the basin in numbers
4,659 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 191,000people live in the basin
- 41/km²people per km²
- 158maverage altitude of the basin
- 621mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 6.6°Caverage air temperature
- 4%protected areas
- 1.2%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 27% Forest
- 40% Cropland
- 19% 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
Sluč: what you find on the way
- 12Weirs
- 2River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Sluč 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
- Vodochranilisjtje Rudnjanskojekm 33.3km²
- Salihorskaje Reservoirkm 72 · 4 m deep12km²
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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
Sluč in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Pripyat River
Ukraine775 km460 m³/sTributaries (6)
Also: Morač, Laknieja, Sivieĺha, Vialikaja Sliva, Byčok, Viasiejka
Nearby
Rivers nearby
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| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1786479) · 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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