Key facts
- Native name
- Свіслач ( Belarusian ) Свислочь ( Russian )
- Country
- Belarus
- Location
- Grodno Region
- Length
- 327 km (203 mi)
- Basin size
- 5,160 km (1,990 sq mi)
- Average
- 30 m /s (1,100 cu ft/s)
- Progression
- ‹See Tfd› Berezina → ‹See Tfd› Dnieper → ‹See Tfd› Dnieper–Bug estuary → Black Sea
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Encyclopedic overview
The Svislach (Belarusian: Свіслач, romanized: Śvislač, pronounced [ˈsʲvʲisɫatʂ] ) or Svisloch (Russian: Свислочь) is a river in Belarus. A right-bank tributary of the river Berezina, the Svislach is 327 kilometres (203 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 5,160 square kilometres (1,990 sq mi).
Its name is derived from the root -visl- 'flowing,' of Indo-European origin (compare Vistula).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Svislach River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.