Inhulets River

Mouth of the Saksahan in the Inhulez in Krivoy Rog

The Inhulez in Krivoy Rog

Catchment area of ​​the Inhulez in Ukraine

The Inhulez (Ukrainian Інгулець - "small Inhul "; Russian Ингулец ( Ingulez ) ) is a right tributary of the Dnieper River with a length of 549 km and a catchment area of ​​13,700 km ² (according to other sources 14,870 km ²). It rises in the east of the Dneprhochlands near the village Jelisawethradka Kirovohrad Oblast in the Ukrainian. Your source is just 30 km from the Dnepr away, to which she flows parallel in the upper reaches. Then the Inhulez turns to the south, where it flows through the oblasts Dnipropretowsk, Kherson and Mykolaiv before it flows about 20 km northeast of the city of Kherson in Sadowe ( Садове ), Rajon Biloserka in the Dnepr. The Inhulez is navigable for a distance of 109 km. In its upper reaches, the river is dammed to several reservoirs: Between Petrowe and the village Iskriwka is of 11.2 km ² Iskriwka Reservoir and above the city of Krivoy Rog the river for more than 26 km ² Karatschuniwka reservoir is dammed.

Below the town the river has formed broad flood plains that are flooded with numerous strong meandering creeks, with many islands are formed. They have a rich vegetation, which, however, by the pollution of the river, as a result, is affected by the mine mining in the middle reaches. At the mouth of the river at Sadowe the average annual runoff is 0.3 km ³ / s Important tributaries are the Saksahan and Wyssun.

Larger towns on the Inhulez are Olexandrija, Krivoy Rog, Inhulez and Snihuriwka.

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