River
Smotrych River
168 km from source to mouth · Ukraine.
UkraineFlows into Dniester
In numbers
Length
168km
Average flow
4.0m³/s
Basin
1,800km²
Drop
154m
from 271 m to 117 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
168 km of river and 9 stops on the way: 7 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 271 m
- 0 kmHvardiyske2,168 people
- 39 kmHorodok16,046 people
- 83 kmSmotrych1,806 people
- 141 kmKamianets-Podilskyi96,896 people
- 141 kmKamyanets-Podilskyi97,908 people
- 141 kmPolski Filvarky4,100 people
- 142 kmCastle bridge in Kamianets-Podilskyi
- 144 kmRuski Filvarky1,900 people
- 145 kmStrimka Lan' bridge
- 168 kmDniesterat 117 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Ukraine
At the mouth it carries 4.0 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 625 seconds. It drops from 271 m to 117 m, 0.9 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,800 km², about the size of GP. 133,000 people live in it. Highest water: March; lowest: from December to February and October. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Kamyanets-PodilskyiLargest city on its banks · 97,908 people
- Suceava Ștefan cel Mare International Airport (SCV)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 112 km from the cityCar hire at IFO airport (Ivano-Frankivsk)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- May and from July to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Smotrych River, month by month
Highest water: March
Lowest water: from December to February and October. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): January. Best months to visit: May and from July to September.
From about 3.0 m³/s in the lowest month to 22 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
Smotrych River: the basin in numbers
1,797 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 133,000people live in the basin
- 74/km²people per km²
- 295maverage altitude of the basin
- 654mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.6°Caverage air temperature
- 31%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 4% Forest
- 68% Cropland
- 5% 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
Smotrych River: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 5Waterfalls
- 2Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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
Smotrych River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
DniesterUkraine1,352 km310 m³/s
MoldovaNearby
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Ukraine247 km230 m³/s12 km awaySeretUkraine242 km12 m³/s58 km awayCheremosh RiverUkraine80 km27 m³/s78 km awaySuceava River
Romania160 km20 m³/s116 km awayMoldova RiverRomania205 km32 m³/s186 km awayStryi RiverUkraine232 km45 m³/s198 km awayJijia RiverRomania275 km160 m³/s214 km awayBistrița RiverRomania272 km66 m³/s232 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2492884) · 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 |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
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