Dnieper basin
The Dnieper Basin is the drainage basin of the Dnieper River, covering an area of 531,817 square kilometres (205,336 sq mi).[1] Its water resources compose around 80% of the total for all Ukraine.[2]
Geography
The Dnieper Basin lies within Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. It borders on the
Basin.Tributaries
The Dnieper has many
from its source to its mouth
, with left (L) or right (R) bank indicated:
- Vyazma (L)
- Vop (R)
- Khmost (R)
- Myareya (L)
- Drut (R)
- Berezina (R)
- Sozh (L)
- Pripyat (R)
- Teteriv (R)
- Irpin (R)
- Desna (L)
- Stuhna (R)
- Trubizh (L)
- Ros (R)
- Tiasmyn (R)
- Supii (L)
- Sula (L)
- Psel (L)
- Vorskla (L)
- Oril (L)
- Samara (L)
- Konka (Kherson) (L)
- Konka (Zaporizhzhia) (L)
- Bilozerka (L)
- Bazavluk (R)
- Inhulets (R)
The most prominent rivers in the catchment area are Dnieper with a length of 2,201 kilometres (1,368 mi) and Desna, with a length of 1,130 kilometres (700 mi).[5]
Many small direct tributaries also exist, such as, in the Kyiv area, the Syrets (right bank) in the north of the city, the historically significant Lybid (right bank) passing west of the centre, and the Borshahivka (right bank) to the south.
References
- ^ "IW:LEARN | Projects - Waterbodies - Dnieper". iwlearn.net. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
- ^ a b Splendid Dnieper. There is no straighter river. Ukrinform. 4 July 2015
- ^ "DRAINAGE BASIN OF THE BLACK SEA" (PDF). unece.org.
- ^ "Dnieper - South Bug". www.feow.org. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
- ^ "Десна". bse.sci-lib.com. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
External links
- Dnieper Basin, Ukraine, an ESAsatellite image