River
Batang Hari
800 km from source to mouth · Indonesia.
IndonesiaFlows into South China Sea4th longest in Indonesia
In numbers
Length
800km
Average flow
1,500m³/s
Basin
44,710km²
Drop
527m
from 527 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
800 km of river and 8 stops on the way: 5 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 527 m
- 495 kmMuara Tembesi35,151 people
- 496 kmBatang Tembesitributary
- 537 kmMuara Bulian71,589 people
- 641 kmSipin Lake0.9 km²
- 643 kmDanau Mudung0.7 km²
- 645 kmJambi612,162 people
- 645 kmJambi City635,101 people
- 742 kmSimpang36,652 people
- 800 kmSouth China Seaat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Jambi and West Sumatra, Indonesia
At the mouth it carries 1,500 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 1.7 seconds. It drops from 527 m to 0 m, 0.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 44,710 km², about the size of EE. 2.8 million people live in it. Highest water: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Jambi CityLargest city on its banks · 635,101 people
- Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Airport (PLM)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 188 km from the cityCar hire in JakartaDiscover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water29 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Batang Hari, month by month
Highest water: from January to April
Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 1,100 m³/s in the lowest month to 2,700 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
Batang Hari: the basin in numbers
42,680 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 2.8millionpeople live in the basin
- 67/km²people per km²
- 337maverage altitude of the basin
- 2,624mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 25.2°Caverage air temperature
- 13%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 47% Forest
- 51% Cropland
- 1% Pasture
- 2% 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
Batang Hari: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
- 29Ferry piersPenyeberangan Terusan, Penyeberangan Pasar Terusan, Penyeberangan Sungai Baung and 26 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Batang Hari 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
14mountains at the sourcePeakyas
1island off the mouthIslandyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Sipin Lakekm 5820.9km²
- Danau Mudungkm 5830.7km²
Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗
Mountains at the source (14)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Bukit Pintikayu4.4 km away
- Manderubiah Mount12 km away
- Gunung Balaibasuk8.5 km away
- Gunung Damar7.0 km away
- Gunung Pematangpanjang11 km away
- Gunung Salo14 km away
- Gunung Sulasih3.6 km away
- Gunung Pandan3.8 km away
6 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
Islands off the mouth (1)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Tengah Island7.6 km away11km²
Islandyas is coming soonOpen Islandyas ↗
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
Batang Hari in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (1)
Also: Batang Tembesi
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q810720) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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