River
Betwa River
590 km from source to mouth · India.
IndiaFlows into Yamuna
In numbers
Length
590km
Average flow
500m³/s
Basin
50,000km²
Drop
343m
from 434 m to 91 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
590 km of river and 17 stops on the way: 9 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 434 m
- 49 kmSānchi8,401 people
- 59 kmVidisha155,951 people
- 139 kmKorwai15,136 people
- 139 kmKurwai15,487 people
- 220 kmGangari Tank1.4 km²
- 233 kmRajghat Dam
- 249 kmBāmor Kalān27,860 people
- 281 kmMatatila Reservoir66 km²
- 282 kmMatatila Dam
- 303 kmSukwa Dukwa Dam
- 303 kmDukwān Reservoir15 km²
- 310 kmJamni Rivertributary
- 322 kmOrchha Chhatris, Bundelkhand
- 325 kmOrchha11,511 people
- 341 kmBarāgaon8,655 people
- 426 kmKotra8,534 people
- 562 kmHamīrpur34,144 people
- 590 kmYamunaat 91 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in India
At the mouth it carries 498 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 5.0 seconds. It drops from 434 m to 91 m, 0.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 50,000 km², about the size of CR. 12.5 million people live in it. Highest water: from August to September; lowest: from February to May. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (29% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- VidishaLargest city on its banks · 155,951 people
- Raja Bhoj International Airport (BHO)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 55 km from the cityCar hire at AGR airport (Agra)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From November to MarchThe best months to visit
Betwa River, month by month
Highest water: from August to September
Lowest water: from February to May. Best months to visit: from November to March.
From about 23 m³/s in the lowest month to 2,500 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
Betwa River: the basin in numbers
44,185 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 12.5millionpeople live in the basin
- 287/km²people per km²
- 361maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,029mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 25.5°Caverage air temperature
- 1%protected areas
- 0.9%covered by lakes
- 4.6km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 20% Forest
- 64% Cropland
- 4% Pasture
- 5% 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
Betwa River: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 1Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Betwa 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.
3lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (3)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Gangari Tankkm 2281.4km²
- Matatila Reservoirkm 29266km²
- Dukwān Reservoirkm 31415km²
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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
Betwa River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
YamunaIndia1,376 km3,500 m³/sTributaries (1)
Also: Jamni River
In the same basin
India2,525 km12,000 m³/sBrahmaputra RiverIndia2,900 km19,500 m³/sPadma River
Bangladesh120 km32,000 m³/sGandaki RiverIndia630 km1,800 m³/sChambal RiverIndia960 km600 m³/sJamuna RiverBangladesh245 km20,100 m³/sGhaghara RiverIndia1,080 km3,300 m³/sTeesta RiverBangladesh470 km1,300 m³/sGomti RiverIndia900 km230 m³/sKosi RiverIndia729 km2,300 m³/sNearby
Rivers nearby
India960 km600 m³/s116 km awayRamgangaIndia600 km940 m³/s140 km awaySharda RiverIndia350 km2,300 m³/s194 km awayGomti RiverIndia900 km230 m³/s266 km awayWest Rapti RiverIndia600 km580 m³/s346 km awayBanas RiverIndia512 km34 m³/s349 km awayGhaghara RiverIndia1,080 km3,300 m³/s444 km awaySon RiverIndia780 km1,200 m³/s468 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1334522) · 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 — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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