River
Barcău River
134 km from source to mouth · Hungary and Romania.
Hungary and RomaniaFlows into Crișul Repede River
In numbers
Length
134km
Average flow
6.1m³/s
Basin
2,025km²
Drop
29m
from 110 m to 81 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
134 km of river and 9 stops on the way: 8 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 110 m
- 4 kmSâniob1,391 people
- 14 kmSălard4,109 people
- 24 kmRoșiori1,162 people
- 26 kmMihai Bravu1,160 people
- 42 kmPocsaj2,709 people
- 42 kmIer Rivertributary
- 71 kmBerettyóújfalu14,614 people
- 116 kmSzeghalom9,985 people
- 130 kmKörösladány5,006 people
- 134 kmCrișul Repede Riverat 81 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River
At the mouth it carries 6.1 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 407 seconds. It drops from 110 m to 81 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,025 km², about the size of MU. 1.0 million people live in it. Highest water: February and December. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (13% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- BerettyóújfaluLargest city on its banks · 14,614 people
- Debrecen International Airport (DEB)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 30 km from the cityCar hire at DEB airport (Debrecen)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Barcău River, month by month
Highest water: February and December
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 27 m³/s in the lowest month to 110 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
Barcău River: the basin in numbers
11,549 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.0millionpeople live in the basin
- 88/km²people per km²
- 232maverage altitude of the basin
- 619mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.8°Caverage air temperature
- 4%protected areas
- 0.5%covered by lakes
- 0.2km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 15% Forest
- 47% Cropland
- 20% Pasture
- 3% 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
Barcău River: what you find on the way
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.8 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
Barcău River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Crișul Repede RiverHungary209 km19 m³/sTributaries (27)
Also: Ier River, Fâneața Mare River, Bistra River, Camăr River, Fâncica River, Cheț River, Valea Lacului River, Râul Fânațelor, Crișul Mic River, Cerasa River, Inot River, Curătura River, Sânnicolau River, Borumlaca River, Săldăbagiu River, Valea Albă River, Valea Vițeilor River, Almaș River, Tria River, Dijir River, Kék-Kálló, Valea Iazului River, Toplița River, Ip River
Serbia
Croatia
Germany
Moldova
AustriaNearby
Rivers nearby
Hungary236 km24 m³/s20 km awayKörös RiverHungary93 km21 m³/s71 km awayMureș RiverHungary803 km160 m³/s107 km awayZagyvaHungary179 km9.5 m³/s70 km awaySajóHungary229 km70 m³/s109 km awayHornádHungary286 km31 m³/s112 km awayBodrogHungary67 km120 m³/s134 km awaySomeșHungary418 km120 m³/s162 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q169766) · 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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