Guiva River
Description:
Gu'iva is a river in Ukraine, flows through the territory of the Kazatinsky district of Vinnytsia region and Andrushevsky and Zhytomyr districts of Zhytomyr region. The right tributary of Teterev (Dnieper basin).
The length of Guiva is 97 km. The area of the basin is 1,505 km². River slope is 0.9 m/km. The river valley over a considerable length is V-shaped, up to 2 km wide. The floodplain is swampy. The channel is winding, up to 20 m wide, with a depth of 1.2 m on average. The runoff is regulated by ponds. Andrushevskoe reservoir was built. It is used for technical water supply, irrigation of the economy.
The river originates west of the city of Kazatina. It flows first to the northeast, in the middle to the north, in the lower reaches (from Andrushevka) to the northwest. It flows into Teterev on the south-western outskirts of Zhytomyr.
The largest tributaries: Wasteland, Kodenko (left).
On Guiva are the cities of Kazatin and Andrushevka.