Int. J. Hydrology Science and Technology, Vol. 9, No. 6, 2019 603 Copyright © 2019 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. The map-correlation method for ungauged catchments streamflow prediction in the Ufa River, Russian Federation Nataliya Krasnogorskaya Department of Production Safety and Industrial Ecology, Ufa State Aviation Technical University, Karl-Marx-Str. 12, 450000, Ufa, Russian Federation Email: nk.ufa@mail.ru Elena Belozerova* Department of Production Safety and Industrial Ecology, Ufa State Aviation Technical University, Karl-Marx-Str. 12, 450000, Ufa, Russian Federation and Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, University Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084, Fisciano (SA), Italy Email: elena.belozerova.ufa@gmail.com *Corresponding author Antonia Longobardi Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, University Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084, Fisciano (SA), Italy Email: alongobardi@unisa.it Elvira Nafikova Department of Production Safety and Industrial Ecology, Ufa State Aviation Technical University, Karl-Marx-Str. 12, 450000, Ufa, Russian Federation Email: vira2006@yandex.ru Abstract: The paper investigates the problem of streamflow prediction at ungauged catchments by the use of the map-correlation method and focuses on the selection of reference stream gauges to estimate the average daily streamflow for ungauged catchments. Daily streamflow data are indeed crucial for several fields such as water management, sustainable water resource management, hydropower energy production, but the number of ungauged watersheds is still big and reliable large scale regional approaches are indeed