River
Banas River
512 km from source to mouth · India.
IndiaFlows into Chambal River
In numbers
Length
512km
Average flow
34m³/s
Basin
45,833km²
Drop
630m
from 809 m to 179 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
512 km of river and 5 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 809 m
- 62 kmNāthdwāra42,016 people
- 82 kmEvri4,758 people
- 125 kmRāsmi Tank0.5 km²
- 160 kmHamīrgarh11,678 people
- 300 kmBisalpur Reservoir59 km²
- 512 kmChambal Riverat 179 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in India
At the mouth it carries 34 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 74 seconds. It drops from 809 m to 179 m, 1.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 45,833 km², about the size of EE. 14.7 million people live in it. Highest water: from August to September; lowest: from January to February and from April to May. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 126% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- NāthdwāraLargest city on its banks · 42,016 people
- Maharana Pratap Airport (UDR)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 36 km from the cityCar hire at UDR airport (Udaipur)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From November to MarchThe best months to visit
Banas River, month by month
Highest water: from August to September
Lowest water: from January to February and from April to May. Best months to visit: from November to March.
From about 0.0 m³/s in the lowest month to 170 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.
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The basin
Banas River: the basin in numbers
47,528 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 14.7millionpeople live in the basin
- 310/km²people per km²
- 411maverage altitude of the basin
- 600mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 25.3°Caverage air temperature
- 3%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 1.3km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 6% Forest
- 53% Cropland
- 10% Pasture
- 8% 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
Banas River: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Banas 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.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
4mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Rāsmi Tankkm 1380.5km²
- Bisalpur Reservoirkm 33059km²
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Mountains at the source (4)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Haitonga ka Magra14 km away
- Mandori9.9 km away
- Palāni12 km away
- Bhūt Mathāra7.1 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
Banas River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Chambal RiverIndia960 km600 m³/sIn the same basin
India2,525 km12,000 m³/sBrahmaputra RiverIndia2,900 km19,500 m³/sYamunaIndia1,376 km3,500 m³/sPadma River
Bangladesh120 km32,000 m³/sGandaki RiverIndia630 km1,800 m³/sJamuna RiverBangladesh245 km20,100 m³/sGhaghara RiverIndia1,080 km3,300 m³/sTeesta RiverBangladesh470 km1,300 m³/sGomti RiverIndia900 km230 m³/sKosi RiverIndia729 km2,300 m³/sWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2722701) · 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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