River
Akuliarusiarsuup Kuua
30 km from source to mouth · Greenland.
GreenlandFlows into Qinnguata Kuussua
In numbers
Length
30km
Average flow
60m³/s
Basin
11,758km²
Drop
10m
from 21 m to 11 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
30 km of river and 1 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 21 m
- 30 kmTasersuatsiaq5.1 km²
- 30 kmQinnguata Kuussuaat 11 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Greenland
At the mouth it carries 60 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 42 seconds. Its basin covers 11,758 km², about the size of QA. Highest water, with the snowmelt: May; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Kangerlussuaq International Airport (SFJ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 1 km from the city
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- JulyThe best months to visit
Akuliarusiarsuup Kuua, month by month
Highest water: May
Lowest water: from January to April. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from October to April. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: July.
From about 4.9 m³/s in the lowest month to 280 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
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Akuliarusiarsuup Kuua: the basin in numbers
11,758 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 128people live in the basin
- 1,332maverage altitude of the basin
- 635mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -8.6°Caverage air temperature
- 1.8%covered by lakes
- 91%permafrost
What covers the basin
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
Akuliarusiarsuup Kuua: what you find on the way
- 2Marinas
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.8 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Akuliarusiarsuup Kuua 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
- Tasersuatsiaqkm 275.1km²
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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
Akuliarusiarsuup Kuua in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Qinnguata KuussuaGreenland31 km60 m³/sWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q4701946) · 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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