River
Chulym
1,799 km from source to mouth · Russia.
RussiaFlows into Ob
In numbers
Length
1,799km
Average flow
780m³/s
Basin
134,000km²
Drop
324m
from 378 m to 54 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
1,799 km of river and 61 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmCherny Iyusat 378 m
- 3 kmCherny Iyustributary
- 3 kmBely Iyustributary
- 15 kmShalabolkatributary
- 64 kmTangatributary
- 77 kmKuzurbatributary
- 92 kmKyzyndzhultributary
- 153 kmTumnatributary
- 160 kmZhuratributary
- 216 kmToyluktributary
- 292 kmChimzhultributary
- 304 kmKarachagovkatributary
- 324 kmSerezhtributary
- 332 kmBarabanovkatributary
- 352 kmNazarovo55,252 people
- 355 kmAdadymtributary
- 369 kmOzero Tabaldyrik0.3 km²
- 456 kmUryuptributary
- 467 kmKubitetkatributary
- 485 kmKosultributary
- 575 kmOzero Bol'shoye (lanaw sa Rusya, Krasnoyarskiy Kray, lat 56,22, long 90,32)2.5 km²
- 595 kmAchinsk117,634 people
- 595 kmMazulkatributary
- 597 kmTeptyatkatributary
- 602 kmOzero Kurbatovskoye0.7 km²
- 604 kmSalyrkatributary
- 615 kmUluytributary
- 638 kmOkoltributary
- 646 kmSrednesuchkovkatributary
- 667 kmBolshoy Uluytributary
- 697 kmKamchalatributary
- 707 kmMalaya Kamchalatributary
- 723 kmKochetattributary
- 730 kmTyukhtettributary
- 754 kmTunuytributary
- 766 kmKemchugtributary
- 800 kmIdettributary
- 836 kmLadogtributary
- 867 kmKipidetskayatributary
- 881 kmKilchekovskayatributary
- 931 kmChindattributary
- 1,081 kmKultepkatributary
- 1,112 kmVerkhny Kitattributary
- 1,172 kmKytsytributary
- 1,215 kmArbagachtributary
- 1,271 kmKiyatributary
- 1,307 kmYayatributary
- 1,316 kmItatkatributary
- 1,332 kmKuendattributary
- 1,348 kmAlatyrktributary
- 1,370 kmChugundattributary
- 1,390 kmBalagachevkatributary
- 1,390 kmKuzherbaktributary
- 1,434 kmChichkayultributary
- 1,437 kmMalaya Yuksatributary
- 1,468 kmBolshaya Yuksatributary
- 1,481 kmUluyultributary
- 1,500 kmSaygatributary
- 1,520 kmLaytributary
- 1,540 kmYurmettributary
- 1,578 kmKhartributary
- 1,596 kmPudangatributary
- 1,799 kmObat 54 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Russia, tributary of Ob
At the mouth it carries 785 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 3.2 seconds. It drops from 378 m to 54 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 134,000 km², about the size of GR. 898,000 people live in it. Highest water: from May to July; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- AchinskLargest city on its banks · 117,634 people
- Krasnoyarsk International Airport (KJA)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 123 km from the city
- On the water9 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Chulym, month by month
Highest water: from May to July
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 180 m³/s in the lowest month to 2,600 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
Chulym: the basin in numbers
132,952 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 898,000people live in the basin
- 7/km²people per km²
- 291maverage altitude of the basin
- 493mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -0.1°Caverage air temperature
- 9%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 2%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 75% Forest
- 13% Cropland
- 8% 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
Chulym: what you find on the way
- 8Ferry piers
- 1Marinas
- 4River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Chulym 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.
3lakes on its wayLakeyas
4mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (3)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Ozero Tabaldyrikkm 3470.3km²
- Ozero Bol'shoye (lanaw sa Rusya, Krasnoyarskiy Kray, lat 56,22, long 90,32)km 5402.5km²
- Ozero Kurbatovskoyekm 5660.7km²
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Mountains at the source (4)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Verkhnyaya13 km away
- Gora Solov'yëvskaya13 km away
- Gora Bol'shaya12 km away
- Gora Uzhurskaya15 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.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
ObRussia3,650 km12,500 m³/sTributaries (85)
Also: Kiya, Yaya, Bely Iyus, Kemchug, Chichkayul, Cherny Iyus, Uryup, Uluyul, Serezh, Bolshaya Yuksa, Bolshoy Uluy, Kyzylka, Chindat, Alatyrk, Toyluk, Zhura, Itatka, Chugundat, Kuendat, Balagachevka, Kuzherbak, Kosul, Yurmet, Malaya Yuksa
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q214768) · 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 | Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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