River
Vishera
415 km from source to mouth · Russia.
RussiaFlows into Kama
In numbers
Length
415km
Average flow
460m³/s
Basin
31,200km²
Drop
478m
from 413 m to -65 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
415 km of river and 23 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmUral Mountainsat 413 m
- 24 kmNiolstributary
- 36 kmMuraveytributary
- 52 kmMoyvatributary
- 61 kmLypya Rivertributary
- 110 kmNizhnyaya Panikhatributary
- 120 kmVelstributary
- 136 kmBolshaya Rasyatributary
- 140 kmYelma Rivertributary
- 150 kmUlstributary
- 162 kmBolshaya Vayatributary
- 196 kmAkchimtributary
- 199 kmVolimtributary
- 201 kmPisankatributary
- 235 kmMaly Schugortributary
- 236 kmBolshaya Shchugor Rivertributary
- 251 kmBolshoy Kolchimtributary
- 259 kmGovorukhatributary
- 267 kmBol'shaya Romanikhatributary
- 282 kmKrasnovishersk18,185 people
- 283 kmVizhaikhatributary
- 326 kmYazvatributary
- 341 kmKolvatributary
- 398 kmTolychtributary
- 415 kmKamaat -65 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Perm Krai, Russia
At the mouth it carries 457 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 5.5 seconds. It drops from 413 m to -65 m, 1.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 31,200 km², about the size of BE. 45,000 people live in it. Highest water, with the snowmelt: from May to June; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- KrasnovisherskLargest city on its banks · 18,185 people
- On the water6 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe2 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Vishera, month by month
Highest water: from May to June
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 71 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
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The basin
Vishera: the basin in numbers
31,286 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 45,000people live in the basin
- 1/km²people per km²
- 312maverage altitude of the basin
- 696mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -0.8°Caverage air temperature
- 13%protected areas
- 0.3%covered by lakes
- 7%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 90% Forest
- 1% 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
Vishera: what you find on the way
- 2Rapids
- 5Ferry piers
- 1Marinas
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Vishera 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.
6mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (6)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Kholat Syakhl13 km away1,097m
- Saklaymsorichahl1.9 km away1,128m
- Khozyatalyakhchakhl7.9 km away1,075m
- Somyakhnyolchahl5.1 km away1,055m
- Gumpkapay5.7 km away
- Puramunitur2.9 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.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
KamaRussia1,805 km4,100 m³/sTributaries (41)
Also: Kolva, Yazva, Akchim, Uls, Govorukha, Yelma River, Lypya River, Moyva, Vizhaikha, Pisanka, Bolshaya Vaya, Niols, Vels, Bolshaya Shalyuga, Maly Schugor, Nizhnyaya Panikha, Volim, Bolshaya Shchugor River, Bolshaya Rasya, Muravey, Bolshoy Kolchim, Tolych, Bol'shaya Romanikha, Priluchnaya River
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q476721) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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