River
Arghandab River
400 km from source to mouth · Afghanistan.
AfghanistanFlows into Helmand River4th longest in Afghanistan
In numbers
Length
400km
Average flow
230m³/s
Basin
77,308km²
Drop
1,202m
from 1,950 m to 748 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
400 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 1,950 m
- 230 kmDori Rivertributary
- 400 kmHelmand Riverat 748 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Afghanistan
At the mouth it carries 227 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 11 seconds. It drops from 1,950 m to 748 m, 3.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 77,308 km², about the size of PA. 3.6 million people live in it. Highest water: from February to March; lowest: from July to October. Its dams hold back little of its water (6.7% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- Lashkar GāhLargest city on its banks · 43,934 people
- Ahmad Shah Baba International Airport (KDH)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 140 km from the city
- From April to May and from September to OctoberThe best months to visit
Arghandab River, month by month
Highest water: from February to March
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from April to May and from September to October.
From about 22 m³/s in the lowest month to 830 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
Arghandab River: the basin in numbers
76,618 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 3.6millionpeople live in the basin
- 47/km²people per km²
- 1,940maverage altitude of the basin
- 247mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 12.5°Caverage air temperature
- 0.5km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 1% Forest
- 7% Cropland
- 46% 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.
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Arghandab 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.
12mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (12)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Tarichay Ghar14 km away2,367m
- Dê Krāwē Ghaṯē13 km away2,210m
- Dê Jam‘iyat Lōyah Ghunḏêy11 km away
- Mōkōlghō6.5 km away
- Ghurzānah Ghunḏêy8.3 km away
- Mullā Sadō Tōr7.1 km away
- Sūr Ghar11 km away
- Sūr Sar9.2 km away
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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
Arghandab River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Helmand River
Iran1,150 km78 m³/sTributaries (1)
Also: Dori River
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q8498) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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