River
White Drin
175 km from source to mouth · Albania and Kosovo.
Albania and KosovoFlows into Drin6th longest in Albania
In numbers
Length
175km
Average flow
56m³/s
Basin
4,964km²
Drop
750m
from 1,027 m to 277 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
175 km of river and 8 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmWhite Drin Waterfallat 1,027 m
- 27 kmPejë48,962 people
- 66 kmKlina8,050 people
- 73 kmLumbardhi Pejëstributary
- 83 kmDečanska Bistricatributary
- 108 kmEreniktributary
- 110 kmFshajt Bridge
- 141 kmLumbardhi i Prizrenittributary
- 171 kmKukës36,125 people
- 175 kmDrinat 277 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Kosovo and Albania
At the mouth it carries 56 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 45 seconds. It drops from 1,027 m to 277 m, 4.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 4,964 km², about the size of TT. 752,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to January; lowest: from August to September. Its dams hold back little of its water (4.5% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- PejëLargest city on its banks · 48,962 people
- Priština Adem Jashari International Airport (PRN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 62 km from the cityCar hire at PRN airport (Prishtina)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
White Drin, month by month
Highest water: from December to January
Lowest water: from August to September. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 28 m³/s in the lowest month to 180 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
White Drin: the basin in numbers
5,005 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 752,000people live in the basin
- 150/km²people per km²
- 860maverage altitude of the basin
- 969mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.1°Caverage air temperature
- 12%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 18% Forest
- 41% Cropland
- 18% Pasture
- 8% 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
White Drin: what you find on the way
- 2WeirsKlina Water Treatment System
- 9WaterfallsUjëvara Kaprollit, Waterfall, Mirusha Waterfall and 6 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
White Drin 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.
124mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (124)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Hajla11 km away2,403m
- Marijash9.2 km away2,533m
- Žuti kamen5.8 km away2,522m
- Kopranik14 km away2,460m
- Maja e Rops14 km away2,502m
- Dog Peak11 km away2,405m
- Veternik Mountain14 km away2,461m
- Crni Krš7.3 km away2,426m
116 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
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
White Drin in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
DrinAlbania280 km350 m³/sTributaries (5)
Also: Dečanska Bistrica, Lumbardhi i Prizrenit, Klina
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Albania177 km50 m³/s0 km awayErenikKosovo51 km38 m³/s32 km awayBunaAlbania40 km680 m³/s89 km awayTreska
North Macedonia132 km2,300 m³/s79 km awayMatAlbania115 km100 m³/s83 km awayLumbardhi PejësKosovo62 km22 m³/s55 km awayMorača
Montenegro99 km15 m³/s102 km awaySitnica
Serbia90 km95 m³/s98 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q252385) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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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