River
Bureya
623 km from source to mouth · Russia.
RussiaFlows into Amur River
In numbers
Length
623km
Average flow
890m³/s
Basin
70,700km²
Drop
467m
from 554 m to 87 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
623 km of river and 5 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 554 m
- 152 kmNimantributary
- 239 kmTuyuntributary
- 334 kmTyrmatributary
- 428 kmBureya Dam
- 521 kmNovobureyskiy8,550 people
- 623 kmAmur Riverat 87 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast, Russia
At the mouth it carries 890 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 2.8 seconds. It drops from 554 m to 87 m, 0.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 70,700 km², about the size of IE. 73,000 people live in it. Highest water: from August to September; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- NovobureyskiyLargest city on its banks · 8,550 people
- Heihe Aihui Airport (HEK)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 188 km from the city
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- JuneThe best months to visit
Bureya, month by month
Highest water: from August to September
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Best months to visit: June.
From about 83 m³/s in the lowest month to 2,100 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
Bureya: the basin in numbers
70,124 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 73,000people live in the basin
- 1/km²people per km²
- 663maverage altitude of the basin
- 732mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -4.8°Caverage air temperature
- 8%protected areas
- 42%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 86% Forest
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
Bureya: what you find on the way
- 1Marinas
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 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.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Amur RiverRussia2,824 km12,800 m³/sTributaries (6)
Also: Niman, Tyrma, Tuyun, Urgal, Dikan, Umalta
In the same basin
China1,434 km2,500 m³/sArgun RiverChina1,620 km190 m³/sUssuriRussia897 km1,200 m³/sZeyaRussia1,242 km1,900 m³/sOnon RiverRussia1,032 km190 m³/sShilkaRussia560 km550 m³/sKherlen RiverChina1,254 km54 m³/sIngodaRussia708 km73 m³/sNen RiverChina1,370 km690 m³/sMudan RiverChina700 km180 m³/sWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q729705) · 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 |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
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