Mukhavets

Mukhavets River
The Mukhavets River at Brest, Belarus
Location
Country	Belarus
Physical characteristics
Source	Confluence of River Mukha and Viets Canal
• location	Pruzhany, Belarus
• coordinates	52°33′48.96″N 24°27′8.28″E / 52.5636000°N 24.4523000°E / 52.5636000; 24.4523000
Mouth	Bug
• location	Brest
• coordinates	52°4′52.11″N 23°39′8.5″E / 52.0811417°N 23.652361°E / 52.0811417; 23.652361
Length	113 km (70 mi)
Basin size	6,600 km2 (2,500 sq mi)
Discharge
• average	33.6 m3/s (1,190 cu ft/s)
Basin features
Progression	Bug→ Narew→ Vistula→ Baltic Sea

The Mukhavets or Mukhovets (Belarusian: Мухаве́ц (Muchaviec), [muxaˈvʲets], BGN/PCGN romanization: Mukhavyets; Russian: Мухове́ц (Muchovec), Polish: Muchawiec) is a river in western Belarus.

A tributary of the Bug River, the Mukhavets rises in Pruzhany, Belarus, where the Mukha river and the Vyets [be] canal converge, flows through south-western Belarus and merges with the Bug River in Brest.

The river is 113 km long with a 6,600 km² (2,500 sq mi) basin area.

The Mukhavets is connected with the Dnieper river by the Dnieper–Bug Canal.

Cities

• Pruzhany
• Kobryn
• Zhabinka
• Brest

Tributaries

• Dakhlowka
• Zhabinka
• Trastsyanitsa
• Asipowka
• Ryta

External links

• About the river in Brest

Books

• (in Russian, English and Polish) Ye.N.Meshechko, A.A.Gorbatsky (2005) Belarusian Polesye: Tourist Transeuropean Water Mains, Minsk, Four Quarters

52°05′01″N 23°38′54″E / 52.0835°N 23.6482°E / 52.0835; 23.6482

This page was last edited on 20 December 2023, at 18:13