Ritsa
- Area
- 1.49 km²
- Max depth
- 116 m
- Tonight
- 7°CFair · Wind 5 km/h NE
Ritsa is a lake at 885 m above sea level in Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, 1.49 km² in area and 2.4 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 885 m
- Length
- 2.4 km
- Shoreline
- 7.8 km
Ritsa in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 7.8 km≈2 h to walk around
Ritsa 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 4.4 × 4.4 km
Ritsa terrain and contours
50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
Ritsa elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Ritsa weather
Tonight · Fair · 7°C (45°F) · Wind 5 km/h NE
Ritsa forecast for about 885 m.
- Tonight7°–5 km/h NE
- Today7°19°–8 km/h SE
- Sun7°18°–7 km/h NE
- Mon8°20°–8 km/h NE
- Tue13°20°–3 km/h NE
- Wed13°22°1.7 mm4 km/h NE
- Thu12°18°1.0 mm5 km/h E
- Fri10°14°20.0 mm6 km/h SE
- Sat7°11°6.8 mm4 km/h S
- Sun9°13°4.5 mm7 km/h SE
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:18 UTC.
Camping & parking near Ritsa
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Ritsa, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
0.7 km NE
Nearest parking
Озеро Рица
Nearest hut
Балаган
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Campsite | 0.7 km NE |
| Озеро РицаParking | 0.7 km S |
| Parking | 1.3 km SW |
| CampingCampsite | 1.7 km SSW |
| Parking | 1.7 km E |
| Campsite | 5.0 km WSW |
| БалаганHut | 5.4 km ESE |
| Hut | 5.8 km WSW |
| Домик лесникаHut | 7.1 km W |
Slope
Share of the 4.4 × 4.4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly steep: more than half the view is steeper than 30°, the angle of most avalanche terrain.
- Steeper than 30°
- 52.9% of the 19 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,124 m low point 685 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2.2 km; 164 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Grey Wagtail17
- Common Chaffinch16
- Maidenhair spleenwort9
- White-throated Dipper8
- White Wagtail8
- Hard shield fern8
Where Ritsa sits
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Data sources
- Terrain
- Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-09-13)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Panorama
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)