River
Cauto River
343 km from source to mouth · Cuba.
CubaFlows into Gulf of Guacanayabo1st longest in Cuba
In numbers
Length
343km
Average flow
120m³/s
Basin
8,928km²
Drop
200m
from 200 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
343 km of river and 5 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 200 m
- 12 kmPresa Gilbert2.6 km²
- 34 kmPalma Soriano102,826 people
- 172 kmCauto Cristo21,159 people
- 223 kmBayamo Rivertributary
- 226 kmCiénaga Larga de Domínguez29 km²
- 343 kmGulf of Guacanayaboat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Cuba
At the mouth it carries 116 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 22 seconds. It drops from 200 m to 0 m, 0.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 8,928 km², about the size of PR. 1.1 million people live in it. Highest water: from June to July and from September to October; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Palma SorianoLargest city on its banks · 102,826 people
- Antonio Maceo International Airport (SCU)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 31 km from the cityCar hire at KIN airport (Kingston)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From November to MarchThe best months to visit
Cauto River, month by month
Highest water: from June to July and from September to October
Lowest water: from January to April. Best months to visit: from November to March.
From about 35 m³/s in the lowest month to 220 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
Cauto River: the basin in numbers
9,054 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.1millionpeople live in the basin
- 120/km²people per km²
- 158maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,208mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 25.2°Caverage air temperature
- 2%protected areas
- 1.3%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 7% Forest
- 51% Cropland
- 25% Pasture
- 4% 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
Cauto River: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.8 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Cauto 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
5beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
5mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Presa Gilbertkm 92.6km²
- Ciénaga Larga de Domínguezkm 17029km²
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Beaches (5)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Playa Habanero24 km away30.5°C
- Ensenada de Birama12 km away · cove30.5°C
- Caleta Honda22 km away · cove30.5°C
- Bahía Diego18 km away · cove30.5°C
- Estero de Buey16 km away · cove30.5°C
Mountains at the source (5)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Monte Líbano9.8 km away
- Alto del Guajaca15 km away
- Loma Gato11 km away
- Loma Goodbye11 km away
- Alto de la Estrella11 km away
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
Cauto River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (3)
Also: Bayamo River, Contramaestre River, río Cautillo
Jamaica
HaitiWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q472849) · 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 — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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