River
Abakan
514 km from source to mouth · Russia.
RussiaFlows into Yenisei
In numbers
Length
514km
Average flow
380m³/s
Basin
32,000km²
Drop
844m
from 1,048 m to 204 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
514 km of river and 14 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmWestern Sayanat 1,048 m
- 168 kmMalyy Abakantributary
- 242 kmMaturtributary
- 263 kmOnatributary
- 294 kmAbaza12,272 people
- 318 kmBolshyje Arbatytributary
- 338 kmTeyatributary
- 344 kmTashtyptributary
- 373 kmTabattributary
- 375 kmAskiz6,928 people
- 407 kmKamyshtatributary
- 418 kmKhankul Lake1.1 km²
- 453 kmUybattributary
- 470 kmBelyy Yar8,951 people
- 487 kmAbakan184,284 people
- 514 kmYeniseiat 204 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Khakassia, Russia
At the mouth it carries 381 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 6.6 seconds. It drops from 1,048 m to 204 m, 1.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 32,000 km², about the size of BE. 185,000 people live in it. Highest water: June; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- AbakanLargest city on its banks · 184,284 people
- Abakan International Airport (ABA)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 3 km from the city
- On the water4 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe8 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Abakan, month by month
Highest water: June
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 30 m³/s in the lowest month to 910 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
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The basin
Abakan: the basin in numbers
32,316 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 185,000people live in the basin
- 6/km²people per km²
- 1,058maverage altitude of the basin
- 437mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -1.4°Caverage air temperature
- 3%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 23%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 62% Forest
- 6% Cropland
- 11% Pasture
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Abakan: what you find on the way
- 1Waterfalls
- 8Rapids
- 2Ferry piers
- 1Marinas
- 6River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Abakan in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Khankul Lakekm 4001.1km²
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From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Abakan in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
YeniseiRussia3,487 km19,800 m³/sTributaries (16)
Also: Askiz, Yerinat River, Ona, Tashtyp, Malyy Abakan, Beya, Uybat, Beduy, Bolshyje Arbaty, Kamyshta, Matur, Tabat, Teya, Dzhabash, Es, Sos
In the same basin
Russia1,779 km4,500 m³/sNizhnyaya TunguskaRussia2,989 km3,700 m³/sSelengaRussia1,024 km940 m³/sPodkamennaya TunguskaRussia1,865 km1,600 m³/sOrkhon River
Mongolia1,124 km120 m³/sOkaRussia630 km270 m³/sUdaRussia1,203 km300 m³/sIrkutRussia488 km140 m³/sTuul RiverMongolia704 km37 m³/sBiryusaRussia830 km350 m³/sWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q216950) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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