River
Breg
49 km from source to mouth · Germany.
GermanyFlows into Danube
In numbers
Length
49km
Average flow
9.7m³/s
Basin
291km²
Drop
107m
from 780 m to 673 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
49 km of river and 4 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSource of the Danubeat 780 m
- 16 kmBräunlingen6,141 people
- 19 kmHüfingen7,747 people
- 22 kmDonaueschingen21,604 people
- 24 kmRiedsee0.3 km²
- 24 kmDanubeat 673 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Germany
At the mouth it carries 9.7 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 257 seconds. It drops from 780 m to 673 m, 2.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 291 km².
Where to start
- DonaueschingenLargest city on its banks · 21,604 people
- Zürich Airport (ZRH)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 55 km from the cityCar hire at ZRH airport (Zurich)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water4 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
Plan the trip
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Along the river
Breg: what you find on the way
- 25Weirs
- 3Boat ramps
- 1MarinasSegelkameradschaft Riedsee Hüfingen e.V.
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Breg 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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
84mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Riedseekm 240.3km²
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Mountains at the source (84)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Kandel11 km away · prominence 351 m1,241m
- Rohrhardsberg4.3 km away1,153m
- Brend1.8 km away1,149m
- Obereck3.4 km away · prominence 199 m1,178m
- Sattelhöhe11 km away1,216m
- Hörnleberg8.9 km away906m
- Schultiskopf4.7 km away1,077m
- P.10822.8 km away · prominence 86 m1,082m
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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
Breg in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Danube
Romania2,850 km5,400 m³/sTributaries (2)
Also: Eisenbach, Hintere Breg
Serbia
Croatia
Moldova
AustriaNearby
Rivers nearby
Switzerland
FranceWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q316397) · 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 |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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