Mukhavets River

Mukhavets River
The Mukhavets River at Brest, Belarus
Country	Belarus
Basin
Main source	Pruzhany, Belarus
River mouth	Bug River
Basin size	6,600 km^2 (2,500 sq mi)
Physical characteristics
Length	113 km (70 mi)
Discharge	Average rate: 33.6 m^3/s (1,190 cu ft/s)

Mukhavets (Belarusian: Мухаве́ц (Muchaviec), [muxaˈvʲets], BGN/PCGN romanization: Mukhavyets; Polish: Muchawiec) is a river in western Belarus, a tributary to the Bug River.

The river rises in Pruzhany, Belarus, where the Mukha river and the Viets canal are converging, flows in the south-western Belarus and empties into the Bug River in Brest.

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

The river is connected with the Dnieper river by the Dnieper-Bug Canal.

Cities

• Pruzhany
• Kobrin
• Zhabinka
• Brest

Tributaries

• Dachlovka
• Zhabinka
• Trascianica
• Asipaǔka
• 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

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