River
Chatkal River
217 km from source to mouth · Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Uzbekistan and KyrgyzstanFlows into Chirchiq6th longest in Uzbekistan
In numbers
Length
217km
Average flow
130m³/s
Basin
7,110km²
Drop
1,489m
from 2,352 m to 863 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
217 km of river and 3 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 2,352 m
- 88 kmKanysh-Kyya4,805 people
- 113 kmÇandalaştributary
- 215 kmBurchmulla4,000 people
- 217 kmChirchiqat 863 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River
At the mouth it carries 126 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 20 seconds. It drops from 2,352 m to 863 m, 6.9 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 7,110 km², about the size of PS. 210,000 people live in it. Highest water, with the snowmelt: from April to May; lowest: from January to March and September. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Kanysh-KyyaLargest city on its banks · 4,805 people
- Namangan International Airport (NMA)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 95 km from the cityCar hire in TashkentDiscover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Chatkal River, month by month
Highest water: from April to May
Lowest water: from January to March and September. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from December to February. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 5.1 m³/s in the lowest month to 490 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
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The basin
Chatkal River: the basin in numbers
6,612 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 210,000people live in the basin
- 32/km²people per km²
- 2,630maverage altitude of the basin
- 724mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 1.0°Caverage air temperature
- 42%protected areas
- 16%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 11% Cropland
- 76% Pasture
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
Chatkal River: what you find on the way
- 7WaterfallsBride's Veil and 6 more
- 1Boat ramps
- 1River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.7 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Chatkal 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.
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Gora Kokuj-Bel13 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
Chatkal River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
ChirchiqUzbekistan154 km220 m³/sTributaries (2)
Also: Akbulak, Çandalaş
Nearby
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Kazakhstan378 km47 m³/s202 km awayTalas RiverKazakhstan661 km170 m³/s261 km awayChu RiverKazakhstan1,318 km130 m³/s419 km awayBartang River
Tajikistan528 km130 m³/s427 km awaySarysuKazakhstan800 km7.3 m³/s468 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1280566) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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