River
Argun River
1,620 km from source to mouth · China and Russia.
China and RussiaFlows into Amur River7th longest in China
In numbers
Length
1,620km
Average flow
190m³/s
Basin
164,000km²
Drop
568m
from 871 m to 303 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
1,620 km of river and 11 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmKherlen Riverat 871 m
- 187 kmYakeshi116,284 people
- 572 kmHailar Rivertributary
- 777 kmGen Hetributary
- 778 kmDerbultributary
- 812 kmUrulyunguytributary
- 845 kmVerkhnyaya Borzyatributary
- 918 kmSrednyaya Borzyatributary
- 1,186 kmUrovtributary
- 1,306 kmUryumkantributary
- 1,333 kmBudyumkantributary
- 1,382 kmGazimur Rivertributary
- 1,620 kmAmur Riverat 303 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Asia
At the mouth it carries 186 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 13 seconds. It drops from 871 m to 303 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 164,000 km², about the size of TN. 1.6 million people live in it. Highest water: from August to September; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- YakeshiLargest city on its banks · 116,284 people
- Hulunbuir Hailar Airport (HLD)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 67 km from the city
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Argun River, month by month
Highest water: from August to September
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 94 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,200 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
Argun River: the basin in numbers
293,768 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.6millionpeople live in the basin
- 6/km²people per km²
- 886maverage altitude of the basin
- 358mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -2.4°Caverage air temperature
- 15%protected areas
- 1.2%covered by lakes
- 17%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 30% Forest
- 4% Cropland
- 50% 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
Argun River: what you find on the way
- 1Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.7 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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
Argun River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Amur RiverRussia2,824 km12,800 m³/sTributaries (11)
Also: Gazimur River, Gen He, Derbul, Hailar River, Urov, Urulyunguy, Uryumkan, Verkhnyaya Borzya, Srednyaya Borzya, Budyumkan
In the same basin
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q26439) · 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 |
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