River
Blanda
125 km from source to mouth · Iceland.
IcelandFlows into Húnaflói4th longest in Iceland
In numbers
Length
125km
Average flow
59m³/s
Basin
2,370km²
Drop
635m
from 638 m to 3 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
125 km of river and 5 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 638 m
- 42 kmBlönduvatn1.0 km²
- 54 kmBlöndulón53 km²
- 58 kmÞrístikla (lanaw sa Islandya, lat 65,24, long -19,75)5.6 km²
- 59 kmGaltaból1.3 km²
- 115 kmLaxárvatn3.1 km²
- 125 kmHúnaflóiat 3 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Iceland
At the mouth it carries 59 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 42 seconds. It drops from 638 m to 3 m, 5.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,370 km², about the size of RE. Highest water, with the snowmelt: May; lowest: from January to April. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (21% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- SauðárkrókurLargest city on its banks · 2,614 people
- Akureyri International Airport (AEY)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 72 km from the cityCar hire at AEY airport (Akureyri)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Blanda, month by month
Highest water: May
Lowest water: from January to April. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 18 m³/s in the lowest month to 190 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
Blanda: the basin in numbers
2,609 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 773people live in the basin
- 571maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,060mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 0.7°Caverage air temperature
- 15%protected areas
- 2.8%covered by lakes
- 7%glaciers
- 1%permafrost
- 0.4km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 7% 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
Blanda: what you find on the way
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Blanda 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.
5lakes on its wayLakeyas
4beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
1island off the mouthIslandyas
Lakes and reservoirs (5)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Blönduvatnkm 391.0km²
- Blöndulónkm 49 · 39 m deep53km²
- Þrístikla (lanaw sa Islandya, lat 65,24, long -19,75)km 535.6km²
- Galtabólkm 541.3km²
- Laxárvatnkm 1063.1km²
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Beaches (4)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Hindisvík18 km away · cove8.9°C
- Brimilsvík16 km away · cove8.9°C
- Laxárvík7.3 km away · cove8.9°C
- Lambhúsavík16 km away · cove8.9°C
Islands off the mouth (1)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Hrútey1.3 km away
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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
Blanda in pictures
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q593129) · 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, Coastya, Peakyas, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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