River
Carrión River
179 km from source to mouth · Spain.
SpainFlows into Pisuerga River
In numbers
Length
179km
Average flow
21m³/s
Basin
3,351km²
Drop
488m
from 1,297 m to 809 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
179 km of river and 8 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmFuentes Carrionasat 1,297 m
- 8 kmCamporredondo Reservoir2.0 km²
- 18 kmReservoir of Compuerto3.0 km²
- 22 kmVelilla del Río Carrión1,591 people
- 27 kmGuardo7,920 people
- 27 kmPuente de Guardo
- 61 kmSaldaña2,989 people
- 86 kmBridge over the Carrion river in Carrión de los Condes
- 86 kmCarrión de los Condes2,350 people
- 91 kmPisuerga Riverat 809 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Spain
At the mouth it carries 21 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 120 seconds. It drops from 1,297 m to 809 m, 2.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,351 km², about the size of CV.
Where to start
- GuardoLargest city on its banks · 7,920 people
- León Airport (LEN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 69 km from the cityCar hire at SDR airport (Santander)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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Along the river
Carrión River: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
- 2LocksEsclusa
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Carrión 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.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
9mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Camporredondo Reservoirkm 82.0km²
- Reservoir of Compuertokm 183.0km²
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Mountains at the source (9)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Pico del Infierno11 km away2,537m
- Tres Provincias peak11 km away2,499m
- Cardaño Needles11 km away2,457m
- Pico Espigüete11 km away
- Peña Prieta11 km away
- Curavacas4.4 km away
- Sierra del Brezo15 km away
- Pico Murcia12 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
Carrión River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Pisuerga RiverSpain283 km110 m³/sTributaries (3)
Also: Ucieza River, Valdeginate, Cueza
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q14758) · 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, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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