River
Bei River
255 km from source to mouth · China.
ChinaFlows into Xi River
In numbers
Length
255km
Average flow
1,500m³/s
Basin
45,900km²
Drop
56m
from 55 m to -1 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
255 km of river and 6 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 55 m
- 0 kmShaoguan1,028,460 people
- 0 kmWu Rivertributary
- 0 kmZhen Rivertributary
- 122 kmLianjiang Rivertributary
- 181 kmQingyuan1,738,424 people
- 189 kmBin Rivertributary
- 255 kmXi Riverat -1 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Guangdong, China, forming the northern tributary of the Pearl River
At the mouth it carries 1,543 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 1.6 seconds. It drops from 55 m to -1 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 45,900 km², about the size of EE. 9.3 million people live in it. Highest water: June; lowest: from November to February. Its dams hold back little of its water (8.0% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- QingyuanLargest city on its banks · 1,738,424 people
- Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (CAN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 44 km from the city
- On the water29 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From October to DecemberThe best months to visit
Bei River, month by month
Highest water: June
Lowest water: from November to February. Best months to visit: from October to December.
From about 480 m³/s in the lowest month to 3,200 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
Bei River: the basin in numbers
47,249 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 9.3millionpeople live in the basin
- 199/km²people per km²
- 364maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,653mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 19.4°Caverage air temperature
- 7%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 3.9km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 70% Forest
- 12% Cropland
- 6% Pasture
- 11% 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
Bei River: what you find on the way
- 4Locks
- 26Ferry piersQingyuan Nanan Pier and 25 more
- 3Marinas
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.2 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
Bei River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Xi RiverChina2,197 km7,400 m³/sTributaries (5)
Also: Lianjiang River, Zhen River, Wu River, Sui River, Bin River
In the same basin
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q814633) · 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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