River
Vovcha
336 km from source to mouth · Ukraine.
UkraineFlows into Samara River
In numbers
Length
336km
Average flow
5.3m³/s
Basin
13,300km²
Drop
83m
from 142 m to 59 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
336 km of river and 15 stops on the way: 7 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 142 m
- 10 kmKarlivske Reservoir2.1 km²
- 24 kmHirnyk10,357 people
- 43 kmKurakhove18,220 people
- 51 kmKurakhove Reservoir8.4 km²
- 74 kmSukhi Yalytributary
- 103 kmMokri Yalytributary
- 106 kmSolona Rivertributary
- 115 kmIvanivka1,417 people
- 188 kmPokrovske9,868 people
- 202 kmHaichultributary
- 245 kmVasylkivka12,028 people
- 245 kmVerkhnia Tersatributary
- 301 kmMalaya Tersatributary
- 308 kmPavlohrad101,430 people
- 318 kmMezhyrich4,174 people
- 336 kmSamara Riverat 59 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Ukraine, tributary of Samara
At the mouth it carries 5.3 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 472 seconds. It drops from 142 m to 59 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 13,300 km², about the size of BS. 860,000 people live in it. Highest water: from April to May; lowest: from December to February and October. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- PavlohradLargest city on its banks · 101,430 people
- Kayak and canoe1 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Vovcha, month by month
Highest water: from April to May
Lowest water: from December to February and October. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from January to February. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 13 m³/s in the lowest month to 120 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.
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The basin
Vovcha: the basin in numbers
13,035 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 860,000people live in the basin
- 66/km²people per km²
- 149maverage altitude of the basin
- 527mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.8°Caverage air temperature
- 0.4%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 1% Forest
- 73% Cropland
- 19% Pasture
- 3% 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
Vovcha: what you find on the way
- 10Weirs
- 2Waterfalls
- 1Rapids
- 1River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.9 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Vovcha 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.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Karlivske Reservoirkm 82.1km²
- Kurakhove Reservoirkm 418.4km²
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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
Vovcha in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Samara RiverUkraine320 km17 m³/sTributaries (11)
Also: Mokri Yaly, Haichul, Solona River, Sukhi Yaly, Malaya Tersa, Verkhnia Tersa, Vorona, Kamianka (Vovtcha), Bereznehuvata, Vodyana, Lozova
BelarusNearby
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| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2993908) · 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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