River
Chindwin River
1,207 km from source to mouth · Myanmar.
MyanmarFlows into Irrawaddy River3rd longest in Myanmar
In numbers
Length
1,207km
Average flow
4,000m³/s
Basin
114,000km²
Drop
515m
from 569 m to 54 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
1,207 km of river and 8 stops on the way: 5 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmHukawng Valleyat 569 m
- 121 kmDanai31,998 people
- 565 kmUyu Rivertributary
- 780 kmMawlaik44,540 people
- 842 kmKalewa8,819 people
- 844 kmMyittha Rivertributary
- 1,071 kmMonywa182,011 people
- 1,073 kmKadogon In0.7 km²
- 1,129 kmYesagyo23,329 people
- 1,207 kmIrrawaddy Riverat 54 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Myanmar
At the mouth it carries 4,000 m³/s on average: 1.6 Olympic pools every second. It drops from 569 m to 54 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 114,000 km², about the size of BJ. 6.3 million people live in it. Highest water: from August to September; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- MonywaLargest city on its banks · 182,011 people
- Mandalay International Airport (MDL)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 98 km from the city
- On the water50 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From November to MarchThe best months to visit
Chindwin River, month by month
Highest water: from August to September
Lowest water: from January to April. Best months to visit: from November to March.
From about 540 m³/s in the lowest month to 15,900 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
Chindwin River: the basin in numbers
114,685 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 6.3millionpeople live in the basin
- 55/km²people per km²
- 680maverage altitude of the basin
- 2,041mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 21.8°Caverage air temperature
- 18%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 43% Forest
- 10% Cropland
- 1% Pasture
- 1% 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
Chindwin River: what you find on the way
- 3Locks
- 50Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Chindwin 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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
7mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Kadogon Inkm 1,0390.7km²
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Mountains at the source (7)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Pumhseng Pum9.7 km away1,707m
- Yudam Bum9.2 km away1,589m
- Nhkruhtu Bum14 km away1,515m
- Numtin Bum6.5 km away1,507m
- Lagathku Bum8.6 km away
- Chitung Bum12 km away
- Ingoka Pum8.2 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
Chindwin River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Irrawaddy RiverMyanmar2,170 km13,000 m³/sTributaries (2)
Also: Myittha River, Uyu River
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q870069) · 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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