River
Almendares River
47 km from source to mouth · Cuba.
CubaFlows into Florida Strait3rd longest in Cuba
In numbers
Length
47km
Average flow
8.6m³/s
Basin
439km²
Drop
91m
from 91 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
47 km of river and 10 stops on the way: 8 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 91 m
- 18 kmEmbalse Ejército Rebelde3.8 km²
- 25 kmBoyeros188,593 people
- 28 kmFontanar178,601 people
- 33 kmAlta Habana7,865 people
- 40 kmPuentes Grandes5,830 people
- 42 kmAlmendares240,000 people
- 44 kmHavana2,492,618 people
- 44 kmPlaza de la Revolución139,135 people
- 46 kmMiramar Bridge
- 47 kmVedado108,369 people
- 47 kmFlorida Straitat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Cuba
At the mouth it carries 8.6 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 291 seconds. It drops from 91 m to 0 m, 1.9 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 439 km².
Where to start
- HavanaLargest city on its banks · 2,492,618 people
- José Martí International Airport (HAV)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 17 km from the cityCar hire at EYW airport (Key West)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water6 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
Plan the trip
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Along the river
Almendares River: what you find on the way
- 4Weirs
- 3Waterfalls
- 2Boat ramps
- 4MarinasAlmendares and 3 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Almendares River 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
42beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
8mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Embalse Ejército Rebeldekm 123.8km²
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Beaches (42)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Playa del Chivo6.6 km away29.6°C
- Playa Bacuranao18 km away29.6°C
- Playita Dieciséiskm 3129.6°C
- Playa Monte Barreto4.4 km away29.6°C
- Playa Alamar14 km away29.6°C
- Playa El Mégano22 km away29.6°C
- Playa de Jaimanitas9.0 km away29.6°C
- Ensenada de Atarés6.1 km away · cove29.6°C
34 more on CoastyaOpen Coastya ↗
Mountains at the source (8)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Lomas Tetas de Managua8.2 km away
- Loma Santa Bárbara15 km away
- Loma de Negrín12 km away
- Loma Marrero10 km away
- Loma El Añil14 km away
- Loma del Husillo8.4 km away
- Loma del Ingenito6.7 km away
- Loma Escobilla6.0 km away
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
Almendares River in pictures
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2592558) · 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, Coastya, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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