Uchan-su (waterfall)

The Wuchang- Su waterfall. In the middle of the eagle sculpture can be seen.

The Wuchang- Su Waterfall (Ukrainian and Russian: Учан - Су; Crimean Tatar: Uçan Suv ) is a waterfall of Wuchang- Su River on the southern slopes of Crimean mountains on the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine.

The name Wuchang- Su means of the Crimean Tatar language translates to " Falling Water ".

The Wuchang- Su waterfall is a popular tourist attraction and with a height of 98.5 meters one of the highest waterfalls in Ukraine. The waterfall has two stages. On the first level there is a small building with the sculpture of an eagle.

Conservation

1947, the Wuchang- Su waterfall was declared a nature reserve and is since 1973 part of the 14,523 -acre Yalta Mountain Forest Nature Reserve. [Note 1]

Water runoff

On average for the waterfall flowing through 50 liters of water per second. The river discharge is, however, distributed seasonally very different. During the waterfall in severe winters sometimes frozen and summer is almost dried up, it performs most of the water in the spring after the snow melts.

Location

The waterfall is located 7 km west of the city of Yalta to reach halfway to the mountain Ai-Petri and is the regional road Т 0117 to 390 meters above sea level.

Wuchang- Su (river)

The Wuchang- Su rises at an altitude of 900 m on the slopes of Aj -Petri and flows in the upper reaches through a gorge, to then form the waterfall at a distance of 2 km from the source. It ends after a total of only 8.4 kilometers in the center of Yalta in the Black Sea. Its catchment area is 38 km ² and its average discharge at the mouth is only 0.37 m³ / sec, because the river water is mainly used for water supply and irrigation.

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