In numbers
Length
106km
Average flow
8.3m³/s
Basin
2,512km²
Drop
318m
from 318 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
106 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 318 m
- 106 kmMouthat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River giving its name to an ancient region in Libya
At the mouth it carries 8.3 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 301 seconds. It drops from 318 m to 0 m, 3.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,512 km², about the size of RE. 160,000 people live in it. Highest water: January; lowest: from June to September. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- ZlitenLargest city on its banks · 203,790 people
- Mitiga International Airport (MJI)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 129 km from the city
- From March to May and from October to NovemberThe best months to visit
Cinyps, month by month
Highest water: January
Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from March to May and from October to November.
From about 0.4 m³/s in the lowest month to 24 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
Cinyps: the basin in numbers
2,512 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 160,000people live in the basin
- 64/km²people per km²
- 223maverage altitude of the basin
- 222mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 19.9°Caverage air temperature
- 28%protected areas
- 0.0km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 1% Cropland
- 25% 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
Cinyps: what you find on the way
- 1River beachesAttwebya Ka’am Beach
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Cinyps 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.
1beach at the mouth or on the banksCoastya
5mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Beaches (1)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Marsá aţ Ţābiyah2.0 km away · cove27.4°C
Mountains at the source (5)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Ra's at Tulaylah11 km away
- Ra's as Sayyid14 km away
- Ra's Shu‘bat al Qārah14 km away
- Ra's al Qazzābīyah14 km away
- Ra's Mānānā12 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.
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q5121128) · 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 | Coastya, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
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