River
Aragón
195 km from source to mouth · Spain.
SpainFlows into Ebro
In numbers
Length
195km
Average flow
41m³/s
Basin
8,524km²
Drop
706m
from 975 m to 269 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
195 km of river and 15 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 975 m
- 1 kmCanfranc633 people
- 1 kmBridge of the Pilgrims
- 21 kmJaca13,396 people
- 34 kmEstarrún Rivertributary
- 44 kmAragón Subordántributary
- 44 kmPuente de Puente la Reina de Jaca
- 59 kmVeral Rivertributary
- 88 kmYesa Reservoir16 km²
- 101 kmOnsella Rivertributary
- 103 kmIrati Rivertributary
- 104 kmPuente de Hierro, Sangüesa
- 105 kmSangüesa/Zangoza4,883 people
- 167 kmRío Zidacostributary
- 187 kmArgatributary
- 191 kmMilagro3,016 people
- 195 kmEbroat 269 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Spain
At the mouth it carries 41 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 61 seconds. It drops from 975 m to 269 m, 3.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 8,524 km², about the size of PR. 472,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to February; lowest: August. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (20% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- JacaLargest city on its banks · 13,396 people
- Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées Airport (LDE)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 81 km from the cityCar hire at LDE airport (Tarbes/Lourdes/Pyrénées)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- Kayak and canoe5 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Aragón, month by month
Highest water: from December to February
Lowest water: August. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 50 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
Aragón: the basin in numbers
8,529 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 472,000people live in the basin
- 55/km²people per km²
- 764maverage altitude of the basin
- 927mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.4°Caverage air temperature
- 8%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 1.2km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 55% Forest
- 25% Cropland
- 20% Pasture
- 1% Towns and cities
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
Aragón: what you find on the way
- 33Weirs
- 3Locks
- 3WaterfallsCascada de Canfranc
- 5Canoe put-insEmbarque aguas bravas Aragón, Canfranc pueblo - Castiello, Embarque aguas bravas Aragón, Jaca - Puentelareina, Embarque aguas bravas Aragón, Puentelareina - Yesa and 2 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.8 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Aragón 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
20mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Yesa Reservoirkm 7816km²
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Mountains at the source (20)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Collarada12 km away · prominence 800 m2,886m
- Pic du Midi d'Ossau6.0 km away2,884m
- Aspe peak8.0 km away · prominence 501 m2,645m
- Bisaurin12 km away · prominence 1,039 m2,668m
- Pala de Ip9.5 km away2,779m
- Anayet5.6 km away2,545m
- Pic Peyreget5.0 km away2,487m
- Pic de Soques11 km away2,429m
12 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
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
Aragón in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
EbroSpain910 km430 m³/sTributaries (11)
Also: Irati River, Aragón Subordán, Río Zidacos, Onsella River, Veral River, Estarrún River, Gas, Río de Canal Roya, río Lubierre, Barranco del Sacal
Nearby
Rivers nearby
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France308 km350 m³/s147 km awayBidasoaFrance68 km26 m³/s126 km awayGave de Pau RiverFrance193 km82 m³/s152 km awayNerviónSpain76 km9.6 m³/s161 km awayGave d'OloronFrance149 km100 m³/s157 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q20357) · 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, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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