River
Barada
71 km from source to mouth · Syria.
Syria3rd longest in Syria
In numbers
Length
71km
Average flow
7.3m³/s
Basin
1,182km²
Drop
495m
from 1,095 m to 600 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
71 km of river and 4 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,095 m
- 37 kmLiberty Bridge
- 38 kmDamascus2,685,360 people
- 38 kmCitadel of Damascus
- 43 kmJaramānā99,999 people
- 71 kmMouthat 600 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Syria
At the mouth it carries 7.3 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 343 seconds. It drops from 1,095 m to 600 m, 7.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,182 km², about the size of MQ. 2.0 million people live in it. Highest water: from January to February; lowest: from June to September. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- DamascusLargest city on its banks · 2,685,360 people
- Damascus International Airport (DAM)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 24 km from the cityCar hire at BEY airport (Beirut)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From April to June and from September to OctoberThe best months to visit
Barada, month by month
Highest water: from January to February
Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from April to June and from September to October.
From about 0.6 m³/s in the lowest month to 23 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
Barada: the basin in numbers
1,182 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 2.0millionpeople live in the basin
- 1,714/km²people per km²
- 1,117maverage altitude of the basin
- 445mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 14.1°Caverage air temperature
What covers the basin
- 2% Forest
- 54% Cropland
- 22% Pasture
- 31% 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.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Barada 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.
33mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (33)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Jabal Terbol14 km away
- Tell Chalma15 km away
- Chrabba15 km away
- Sîret el Aarja13 km away
- Tellet el Morh13 km away
- Qalaat el Qotl10 km away
- Qalaat el Aaouch14 km away
- El Aaouqad11 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
Barada in pictures
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Lebanon65 km5.0 m³/s98 km awayLitani RiverLebanon140 km23 m³/s127 km awayYarmuk
Israel57 km2.6 m³/s132 km awayNahr al-KalbLebanon31 km3.2 m³/s109 km awayJordan River
Jordan252 km52 m³/s229 km awayKishon RiverIsrael70 km7.6 m³/s163 km awayZarqa RiverJordan65 km6.5 m³/s179 km awayYarkon RiverIsrael28 km12 m³/s228 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q765106) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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