River
Chucunaque River
231 km from source to mouth · Panama.
PanamaFlows into Tuira River1st longest in Panama
In numbers
Length
231km
Average flow
190m³/s
Basin
2,967km²
Drop
477m
from 485 m to 8 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
231 km of river and 0 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 485 m
- 108 kmTuira Riverat 8 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Panama
At the mouth it carries 188 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 13 seconds. It drops from 485 m to 8 m, 2.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,967 km², about the size of LU. 5,637 people live in it. Highest water: from June to July and from October to November; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- PinoganaA town on its banks
- Antonio Roldán Betancur Airport (APO)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 112 km from the cityCar hire at PTY airport (Tocumen)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From January to FebruaryThe best months to visit
Chucunaque River, month by month
Highest water: from June to July and from October to November
Lowest water: from January to April. Best months to visit: from January to February.
From about 63 m³/s in the lowest month to 300 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
Chucunaque River: the basin in numbers
2,967 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 5,637people live in the basin
- 2/km²people per km²
- 422maverage altitude of the basin
- 2,544mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 24.5°Caverage air temperature
- 78%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 85% Forest
- 5% 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
Chucunaque River: what you find on the way
- 1Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Chucunaque 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.
2mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (2)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Alturas de Nique11 km away · prominence 1,557 m1,730m
- Cerro Setetule4.1 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
Chucunaque River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Tuira RiverPanama230 km650 m³/s
ColombiaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1364359) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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