River
Uda
1,203 km from source to mouth · Russia.
RussiaFlows into Taseyeva River
In numbers
Length
1,203km
Average flow
300m³/s
Basin
56,800km²
Drop
1,445m
from 1,551 m to 106 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
1,203 km of river and 10 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSayan Mountainsat 1,551 m
- 400 kmNizhneudinsk38,723 people
- 417 kmVodopad Ukovskiy
- 608 kmChunskiy16,199 people
- 746 kmPorog Tyumenets
- 817 kmPorog Chuleyskiy
- 818 kmPorog Khonyangin
- 820 kmPorog Yekunchet
- 827 kmPorog Voron
- 1,046 kmKosovkatributary
- 1,118 kmPorog Volgin
- 1,203 kmTaseyeva Riverat 106 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
At the mouth it carries 300 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 8.3 seconds. It drops from 1,551 m to 106 m, 1.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 56,800 km², about the size of TG. 86,000 people live in it. Highest water: May and July; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- NizhneudinskLargest city on its banks · 38,723 people
- Bratsk Airport (BTK)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 233 km from the city
- On the water6 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Uda, month by month
Highest water: May and July
Lowest water: from January to April. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 42 m³/s in the lowest month to 670 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
Uda: the basin in numbers
56,689 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 86,000people live in the basin
- 2/km²people per km²
- 637maverage altitude of the basin
- 419mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -3.0°Caverage air temperature
- 25%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 90% Forest
- 2% Cropland
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
Uda: what you find on the way
- 2Waterfalls
- 6Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Uda 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.
7waterfalls on the riverCascadyas
3mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Waterfalls (7)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Vodopad Ukovskiykm 412
- Porog Tyumenetskm 736
- Porog Chuleyskiykm 807
- Porog Khonyanginkm 808
- Porog Yekunchetkm 809
- Porog Voronkm 817
- Porog Volginkm 1,104
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Mountains at the source (3)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Pik Triangulyatorov9.5 km away2,783m
- Pik Zaoblachnyy15 km away1,793m
- Gora Sokol13 km away
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
Uda in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (4)
Also: Kosovka, Chuksha, Katarma, Mara
In the same basin
Russia3,487 km19,800 m³/sAngaraRussia1,779 km4,500 m³/sNizhnyaya TunguskaRussia2,989 km3,700 m³/sSelengaRussia1,024 km940 m³/sPodkamennaya TunguskaRussia1,865 km1,600 m³/sOrkhon River
Mongolia1,124 km120 m³/sAbakanRussia514 km380 m³/sOkaRussia630 km270 m³/sIrkutRussia488 km140 m³/sTuul RiverMongolia704 km37 m³/sWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q583285) · 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 | Cascadyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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