Pripyat
Pripyat is a mapped river in the YearMaps hydrographic index. River courses organise settlement, agriculture and frontier-making more durably than any political boundary, and this reach is indexed against the dams, lakes and cities within its catchment.
- Feature Class
- River
- Coordinates
- 52.07°, 28.05°
About Pripyat
The Pripyat or Prypiat is a river in Eastern Europe. The river, which is approximately 761 km (473 mi) long, flows east through Ukraine, Belarus, and into Ukraine again, before draining into the Dnieper at Kyiv Reservoir.
Encyclopedic summary adapted from Wikipedia: Pripyat (river) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Pripyat in Depth
Geography
The Pripyat begins in the Volhynian Upland, between the villages of Budnyky and Rohovi Smoliary in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. 204 km downstream, it crosses the border of Belarus, where it travels 500 km through Polesia, Europe's largest wilderness, within which lie the vast sandy wetlands known as the Pripet Marshes, a dense network of swamps, bogs, rivers and rivulets within a forested basin. For the last 50 kilometers the Pripyat flows again in Ukraine and flows several kilometers south of Chernobyl into the Kyiv Reservoir.
The length of the river is 775 km, and the area of the watershed is 114,300 km2. The width of the floodplain varies from 4 to 15 km over the course of the river, with occasional flooding reaching 30 km.
Sections adapted from Wikipedia: Pripyat (river) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Pripyat: Key Facts
| Length | 775 km |
|---|---|
| Average discharge | 460 m³/s |
| Drainage basin | 114,300 km² |
| Source | Rohovi Smoliari |
| Mouth | Dnieper |
| Drainage system | Pripyat basin |
| Tributaries | Pina, Jasieĺda River, Tsna River, Lan River, Sluč, Pcič, Ipa, Brahinka |
Facts from Wikidata Q157042 (CC0).
Major River Dossiers
Hand-written studies of the great river systems of history.
Connected Reaches
Nearby watercourses in the same drainage network.
Water Bodies in the Catchment
Settlements Along the Reach
Hydraulic Infrastructure Nearby
Surrounding Terrain
Pripyat: Quick Answers
- Where is Pripyat?
- Pripyat is located in Belarus and Ukraine, at 52.0661° N, 28.0507° E.
- Are there dams on the Pripyat?
- No dam on the Pripyat is recorded in the YearMaps dam index, which covers major structures only.