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Beas River

470 km from source to mouth · India.

IndiaIndiaFlows into Sutlej

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SourceMouth
The river and every tributary in its basin, drawn from RiverATLAS (CC BY 4.0).

In numbers

Length

470km

Average flow

1,400m³/s

Basin

20,303km²

Drop

2,072m

from 2,272 m to 200 m

Country

1

The journey

From source to mouth

470 km of river and 21 stops on the way: 15 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

2,272 m200 m
Sourceat 2,272 m0 km
Parvati Rivertributary61 km
Pandoh Lake0.8 km²98 km
Tīra Sujānpur7,943 people187 km
Nādaun4,838 people210 km
Maharana Pratap Sagar189 km²263 km
Chakki Rivertributary309 km
Goindwal Sahib7,772 people421 km
Sutlejat 200 m470 km
0100200300400470 km
  1. 0 kmSourceat 2,272 m
  2. 10 kmManāli8,096 people
  3. 12 kmManali8,096 people
  4. 51 kmKulu19,831 people
  5. 61 kmParvati Rivertributary
  6. 63 kmShamshi8,870 people
  7. 64 kmBhuntar4,475 people
  8. 98 kmPandoh Lake0.8 km²
  9. 98 kmPandoh Dam
  10. 100 kmPāndoh4,351 people
  11. 113 kmUhl Rivertributary
  12. 118 kmMandi26,422 people
  13. 187 kmTīra Sujānpur7,943 people
  14. 210 kmNādaun4,838 people
  15. 230 kmDera Gopipur4,816 people
  16. 263 kmMaharana Pratap Sagar189 km²
  17. 270 kmTalwāra24,752 people
  18. 309 kmChakki Rivertributary
  19. 367 kmSrīgobindpur8,241 people
  20. 394 kmDhilwan8,447 people
  21. 397 kmBudha Thēh10,979 people
  22. 421 kmGoindwal Sahib7,772 people
  23. 470 kmSutlejat 200 m

Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.

River in north India

At the mouth it carries 1,369 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 1.8 seconds. It drops from 2,272 m to 200 m, 4.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 20,303 km², about the size of SI. 15.5 million people live in it. Highest water: from August to September; lowest: from April to June and December. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (42% of a year's flow).

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Where to start

Beas River, month by month

Highest water: from August to September

Lowest water: from April to June and December. Best months to visit: February, April and from October to December.

510
12°67 mmJan
620
14°50 mmFeb
730
19°68 mmMar
480
24°31 mmApr
350
29°33 mmMay
330
31°72 mmJun
2,200
28°349 mmJul
3,600
27°317 mmAug
3,600
26°168 mmSep
2,000
23°40 mmOct
710
17°13 mmNov
260
13°30 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 260 m³/s in the lowest month to 3,600 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

Beas River: the basin in numbers

83,840 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Heavily regulatedReservoirs can hold 42% of a year's flow: dams shape its seasons.
  • 15.5millionpeople live in the basin
  • 186/km²people per km²
  • 3,153maverage altitude of the basin
  • 843mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 7.6°Caverage air temperature
  • 13%protected areas
  • 1.2%covered by lakes
  • 3%glaciers
  • 21%permafrost
  • 18km³held in reservoirs

What covers the basin

  • 13% Forest
  • 20% Cropland
  • 16% Pasture
  • 7% Towns and cities
  • 3% Ice

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

Beas River: what you find on the way

  • 10DamsLarji Dam, Pandoh Dam, Pong Dam and 7 more
  • 42WaterfallsSolang waterfall, 30m Waterfall, Falls and 39 more

From OpenStreetMap, within 2.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Beas 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
  • 5mountains at the sourcePeakyas

Lakes and reservoirs (2)

Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas

  1. Pandoh Lakekm 930.8km²
  2. Maharana Pratap Sagarkm 250189km²

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Mountains at the source (5)

Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas

  1. Shikar Beh9.7 km away6,201m
  2. Hanuman Tibba4.9 km away5,932m
  3. Patalsu Peak9.2 km away4,220m
  4. Muri Tibba10 km away
  5. Mount Friendship4.8 km away

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From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Beas River: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Beas River: satellite view of the mouth
The mouth39 km across

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

Beas River in pictures

Beas Valley - Palchan - Kullu 2014-05-10 (edit)
Original: Biswarup Ganguly Derivative work: UnpetitproleX · CC BY 3.0
Beas River at Kullu, Himachal Pradesh
User:Jupitus Smart · CC BY-SA 4.0
Delay on the road - Upper Beas River near Manali
John Hill · CC BY-SA 4.0
Beas River at Pathankot 6069
PP Yoonus · Public domain

Tributaries

Where it flows, and what flows into it

It flows into

SutlejPakistanPakistan1,500 km1,300 m³/s

Tributaries (3)

Also: Parvati River, Chakki River, Uhl River

In the same basin

Indus RiverPakistanPakistan3,180 km6,600 m³/sChenab RiverPakistanPakistan1,974 km1,600 m³/sJhelum RiverPakistanPakistan774 km540 m³/sKabul RiverPakistanPakistan460 km1,200 m³/sRavi RiverPakistanPakistan720 km230 m³/sKunar RiverAfghanistanAfghanistan480 km370 m³/sShyok RiverPakistanPakistan550 km130 m³/sGilgit RiverPakistanPakistan263 km1,000 m³/s

Nearby

Rivers nearby

Ghaggar-Hakra riverIndiaIndia494 km38 m³/s217 km awayJhelum RiverPakistanPakistan774 km540 m³/s266 km awayRavi RiverPakistanPakistan720 km230 m³/s303 km awayBhagirathi RiverIndiaIndia205 km260 m³/s367 km awayAlaknanda RiverIndiaIndia190 km320 m³/s367 km awayKabul RiverPakistanPakistan460 km1,200 m³/s397 km awayChenab RiverPakistanPakistan1,974 km1,600 m³/s426 km awayShyok RiverPakistanPakistan550 km130 m³/s463 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q319590) · CC0
Course, profile, basinRiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata
FlowWaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Climate along the riverWorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Towns, bridges, damsWikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Along the river© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Our other atlasesLakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST

Every source and licence is on the data sources page.

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