River
Ufa
918 km from source to mouth · Russia.
RussiaFlows into Belaya
In numbers
Length
918km
Average flow
390m³/s
Basin
53,100km²
Drop
307m
from 388 m to 81 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
918 km of river and 41 stops on the way: 6 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSouthern Uralat 388 m
- 39 kmDolgobrodsk Reservoir27 km²
- 50 kmUfaleykatributary
- 66 kmSuroyamtributary
- 83 kmKukazartributary
- 90 kmNyazepetrovsk Reservoir16 km²
- 91 kmNyazepetrovsk12,717 people
- 92 kmNyazyatributary
- 95 kmUraimtributary
- 129 kmMaskaratributary
- 147 kmArganchatributary
- 150 kmTabuskatributary
- 194 kmMikhaylovsk10,209 people
- 198 kmSergatributary
- 264 kmArti13,564 people
- 265 kmArtyatributary
- 291 kmEmanzelgatributary
- 339 kmBiserttributary
- 350 kmKrasnoufimsk43,121 people
- 356 kmSargatributary
- 378 kmSaranatributary
- 445 kmBugalyshtributary
- 476 kmAytributary
- 486 kmAyaztributary
- 523 kmKrushtributary
- 571 kmTyuytributary
- 572 kmNovomullakayevo546 people
- 690 kmPavlovka Hydroelectric Station
- 692 kmPavlovka Reservoir82 km²
- 697 kmYamanelgatributary
- 719 kmBurnatributary
- 719 kmSimkatributary
- 744 kmShamenkatributary
- 758 kmSaldybashtributary
- 796 kmUsatributary
- 796 kmIzyaktributary
- 799 kmLobovkatributary
- 816 kmBelekestributary
- 831 kmTaushkatributary
- 846 kmShugurovkatributary
- 857 kmStaraya Staritsa0.4 km²
- 866 kmUfa1,144,809 people
- 918 kmBelayaat 81 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Bashkiria, Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk Oblasts, Russia
At the mouth it carries 388 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 6.4 seconds. It drops from 388 m to 81 m, 0.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 53,100 km², about the size of BA. 1.5 million people live in it. Highest water: from April to June; lowest: from December to March. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (10% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- UfaLargest city on its banks · 1,144,809 people
- Ufa International Airport (UFA)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 19 km from the city
- On the water16 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Ufa, month by month
Highest water: from April to June
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 70 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,400 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
Ufa: the basin in numbers
52,747 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.5millionpeople live in the basin
- 29/km²people per km²
- 362maverage altitude of the basin
- 581mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 1.2°Caverage air temperature
- 7%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 1.4km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 67% Forest
- 14% Cropland
- 7% 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
Ufa: what you find on the way
- 4Weirs
- 5LocksUfa and 4 more
- 5Waterfalls
- 1Boat ramps
- 13Ferry piersFerry crossing "Sipailovo", Ferry crossing "Tramplin" and 11 more
- 2Marinas
- 8River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Ufa 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.
4lakes on its wayLakeyas
3mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (4)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Dolgobrodsk Reservoirkm 3527km²
- Nyazepetrovsk Reservoirkm 8216km²
- Pavlovka Reservoirkm 62682km²
- Staraya Staritsakm 7740.4km²
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Mountains at the source (3)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Gora Yurma10 km away
- Gora Kamennaya11 km away
- Gora Berkut13 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
Ufa in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
BelayaRussia1,430 km950 m³/sTributaries (56)
Also: Ay, Serga, Tyuy, Bisert, Saldybash, Yugush, Sharama, Yuva, Simka, Belekes, Upuda, Krush, Nyazya, Maskara, Emanzelga, Argancha, Izyak, Artya, Ufaleyka, Taushka, Urmikeyevka, Sargaya, Uraim, Sarana
KazakhstanWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q210870) · 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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