River
Vedea River
224 km from source to mouth · Romania.
RomaniaFlows into Danube
In numbers
Length
224km
Average flow
8.4m³/s
Basin
5,430km²
Drop
240m
from 255 m to 15 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
224 km of river and 26 stops on the way: 25 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 255 m
- 19 kmGalicea4,054 people
- 20 kmBăbeni9,350 people
- 29 kmIoneşti4,379 people
- 42 kmPrundeni4,596 people
- 49 kmDrăgăşani20,630 people
- 51 kmVerguleasa3,439 people
- 66 kmCurtişoara4,583 people
- 69 kmPleşoiu3,365 people
- 72 kmGăneasa4,074 people
- 75 kmSlatina63,487 people
- 100 kmMărunţei4,397 people
- 103 kmComani3,528 people
- 104 kmDrăgăneşti-Olt12,056 people
- 106 kmFărcaşele5,045 people
- 114 kmGostavăţu3,373 people
- 122 kmScărişoara3,221 people
- 130 kmRusăneşti4,819 people
- 134 kmCilieni3,556 people
- 137 kmTia Mare4,853 people
- 142 kmIzbiceni5,089 people
- 158 kmIslaz6,029 people
- 167 kmNikopol3,629 people
- 185 kmBelene7,487 people
- 191 kmLacul Suhaia9.6 km²
- 204 kmZimnicea15,228 people
- 205 kmSvishtov30,157 people
- 224 kmDanubeat 15 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Romania
At the mouth it carries 8.4 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 299 seconds. It drops from 255 m to 15 m, 1.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 5,430 km², about the size of TT. 64.4 million people live in it. Highest water: from February to March and May. Its dams hold back little of its water (9.0% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- SlatinaLargest city on its banks · 63,487 people
- Craiova International Airport (CRA)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 40 km from the cityCar hire at CRA airport (Craiova)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water7 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Vedea River, month by month
Highest water: from February to March and May
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 3,400 m³/s in the lowest month to 10,300 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
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The basin
Vedea River: the basin in numbers
634,984 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 64.4millionpeople live in the basin
- 102/km²people per km²
- 492maverage altitude of the basin
- 779mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.7°Caverage air temperature
- 13%protected areas
- 0.5%covered by lakes
- 16km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 42% Forest
- 33% Cropland
- 19% Pasture
- 4% 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
Vedea River: what you find on the way
- 8Weirs
- 1LocksEcluza Izbiceni
- 1Boat ramps
- 5Ferry piersEurobac, International Port Svishtov, Zimnicea Ferry and 2 more
- 3River beachesPlaja Olt
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.9 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Vedea River 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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lacul Suhaiakm 2219.6km²
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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
Vedea River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
DanubeRomania2,850 km5,400 m³/sTributaries (11)
Also: Teleorman River, Cotmeana River, Burdea River, Ciorâca River, Bratcov River, Dorofei River, Râul Câinelui, Tecuci River, Vedița River, Plapcea River, Valea Găuriciu River
Serbia
Croatia
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
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Bulgaria286 km37 m³/s0 km awayOlt RiverRomania615 km170 m³/s62 km awayOsamBulgaria314 km13 m³/s58 km awayIskarBulgaria368 km54 m³/s91 km awayArgeș RiverRomania350 km73 m³/s96 km awayVitBulgaria189 km14 m³/s66 km awayDâmbovița RiverRomania286 km19 m³/s99 km awayJiu RiverRomania331 km94 m³/s142 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q685222) · 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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