River
Vitim
1,837 km from source to mouth · Russia.
RussiaFlows into Lena River
In numbers
Length
1,837km
Average flow
1,500m³/s
Basin
225,000km²
Drop
999m
from 1,169 m to 170 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
1,837 km of river and 18 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,169 m
- 0 kmVitimkan Rivertributary
- 189 kmZazatributary
- 312 kmOzero Muron0.3 km²
- 389 kmKondatributary
- 435 kmYumurchentributary
- 685 kmKarengatributary
- 800 kmKalakantributary
- 856 kmKalar Rivertributary
- 883 kmTsipa Rivertributary
- 974 kmShivera Tul’dunskaya
- 1,020 kmMuyatributary
- 1,039 kmKuandatributary
- 1,075 kmPorog Paramsky
- 1,176 kmLake Oron49 km²
- 1,431 kmBodaybo15,933 people
- 1,442 kmMamakan Reservoir8.4 km²
- 1,442 kmMamakantributary
- 1,548 kmMama Rivertributary
- 1,837 kmLena Riverat 170 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in eastern Siberia, Russia
At the mouth it carries 1,520 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 1.6 seconds. It drops from 1,169 m to 170 m, 0.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 225,000 km², about the size of GY. 67,000 people live in it. Highest water: August; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- BodayboLargest city on its banks · 15,933 people
- On the water12 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Vitim, month by month
Highest water: August
Lowest water: from January to April. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from October to March. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 340 m³/s in the lowest month to 5,500 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
Vitim: the basin in numbers
233,373 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 67,000people live in the basin
- 0/km²people per km²
- 1,108maverage altitude of the basin
- 437mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -8.0°Caverage air temperature
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 76%permafrost
- 0.2km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 63% Forest
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
Vitim: what you find on the way
- 8Ferry piers
- 3Marinas
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Vitim 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.
2waterfalls on the riverCascadyas
3lakes on its wayLakeyas
Waterfalls (2)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Shivera Tul’dunskayakm 989
- Porog Paramskykm 1,092
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Lakes and reservoirs (3)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Ozero Muronkm 3170.3km²
- Lake Oronkm 1,195 · 184 m deep49km²
- Mamakan Reservoirkm 1,4658.4km²
Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗
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
Lena RiverRussia4,294 km16,400 m³/sTributaries (15)
Also: Tsipa River, Muya, Kalar River, Mama River, Karenga, Kalakan, Mamakan, Kuanda, Bodaybo, Yumurchen, Zaza, Konda, Vitimkan River, Taksima, Kydzhimit
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q26068) · 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, Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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