River
Ayaguz River
492 km from source to mouth · Kazakhstan.
KazakhstanFlows into Lake Balkhash
In numbers
Length
492km
Average flow
8.8m³/s
Basin
15,700km²
Drop
1,025m
from 1,363 m to 338 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
492 km of river and 1 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,363 m
- 199 kmAyagoz33,479 people
- 492 kmLake Balkhashat 338 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Kazakhstan
At the mouth it carries 8.8 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 284 seconds. It drops from 1,363 m to 338 m, 2.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 15,700 km², about the size of TL. 35,000 people live in it. Highest water, with the snowmelt: from April to May; lowest: from January to March and September. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- AyagozLargest city on its banks · 33,479 people
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Ayaguz River, month by month
Highest water: from April to May
Lowest water: from January to March and September. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 1.0 m³/s in the lowest month to 230 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
Ayaguz River: the basin in numbers
19,760 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 35,000people live in the basin
- 2/km²people per km²
- 692maverage altitude of the basin
- 335mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 3.4°Caverage air temperature
- 0.1%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 4% Cropland
- 85% 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.
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.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Kazakhstan417 km19 m³/s73 km awayAksu RiverKazakhstan316 km11 m³/s83 km awayKaratal RiverKazakhstan390 km67 m³/s158 km awayCharyn RiverKazakhstan427 km35 m³/s305 km awayChilik RiverKazakhstan245 km32 m³/s305 km awayIli RiverKazakhstan1,439 km480 m³/s388 km awayUba RiverKazakhstan278 km180 m³/s438 km awayÜlbi RiverKazakhstan100 km100 m³/s443 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2668113) · 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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