River
Dora Riparia
125 km from source to mouth · Italy and France.
Italy and FranceFlows into Po
In numbers
Length
125km
Average flow
28m³/s
Basin
1,231km²
Drop
1,159m
from 1,374 m to 215 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
125 km of river and 56 stops on the way: 50 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,374 m
- 4 kmPonte tibetano Cesana Claviere
- 17 kmOulx2,256 people
- 46 kmSusa5,596 people
- 56 kmBussoleno5,396 people
- 61 kmBruzolo1,483 people
- 66 kmBorgone Susa1,857 people
- 67 kmVillar Focchiardo2,037 people
- 67 kmBaratte1,918 people
- 71 kmSant'Antonino di Susa4,156 people
- 74 kmVaie1,450 people
- 76 kmCondove4,057 people
- 77 kmChiusa di San Michele1,631 people
- 78 kmCaprie1,005 people
- 83 kmSant'Ambrogio di Torino4,688 people
- 84 kmAlmese-Rivera5,009 people
- 84 kmVillar Dora2,305 people
- 86 kmLago Grande di Avigliana0.8 km²
- 86 kmAvigliana9,099 people
- 89 kmDrubiaglio-Grangia1,966 people
- 91 kmFerriera2,860 people
- 91 kmMilanere1,136 people
- 97 kmCaselette2,875 people
- 101 kmAlpignano16,598 people
- 103 kmPianezza13,242 people
- 105 kmVillaggio Leumann2,000 people
- 106 kmCollegno46,524 people
- 111 kmBorgata Paradiso12,000 people
- 114 kmParella46,795 people
- 114 kmCircoiscrizione IV98,787 people
- 114 kmVilla La Tesoriera14,540 people
- 115 kmCampidoglio1,678 people
- 116 kmCircoiscrizione V126,666 people
- 116 kmLucento25,000 people
- 116 kmCit Turin12,502 people
- 117 kmPonte Carlo Emanuele III
- 117 kmMadonna di Campagna21,362 people
- 117 kmSan Donato32,586 people
- 118 kmBorgo Vittoria14,817 people
- 118 kmTurin841,600 people
- 118 kmQuadrilatero15,000 people
- 119 kmBarriera di Milano50,354 people
- 119 kmPonte Carpanini
- 120 kmPorta Palazzo19,000 people
- 120 kmPonte Mosca, Turin
- 120 kmAurora20,001 people
- 121 kmCircoiscrizione VII89,448 people
- 121 kmCentro20,285 people
- 121 kmBorgo Crimea2,049 people
- 121 kmCircoiscrizione I78,523 people
- 122 kmVanchiglia29,230 people
- 122 kmMotovelodromo3,397 people
- 124 kmVanchiglietta18,300 people
- 124 kmPonte Giorgio Washington
- 124 kmMadonna del Pilone2,059 people
- 125 kmSassi3,122 people
- 125 kmRegio Parco9,117 people
- 125 kmPoat 215 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 28 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 90 seconds. It drops from 1,374 m to 215 m, 9.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,231 km², about the size of MQ. 610,000 people live in it. Highest water: from April to May and November. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (46% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- TurinLargest city on its banks · 841,600 people
- Turin Airport (TRN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 14 km from the cityCar hire at TRN airport (Caselle Torinese)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Dora Riparia, month by month
Highest water: from April to May and November
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 9.2 m³/s in the lowest month to 61 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
Dora Riparia: the basin in numbers
1,349 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 610,000people live in the basin
- 454/km²people per km²
- 1,628maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,226mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 5.1°Caverage air temperature
- 13%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 2%permafrost
- 0.3km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 66% Forest
- 3% Cropland
- 11% Pasture
- 12% 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
Dora Riparia: what you find on the way
- 40WeirsDiga Michelotti and 39 more
- 33WaterfallsCascata Rochers des Clouseaux and 32 more
- 1Ferry piersMurazzi
- 1River beachesSpiaggia del Meisino
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Dora Riparia 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
49mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lago Grande di Aviglianakm 710.8km²
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Mountains at the source (49)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Pic de Rochebrune11 km away · prominence 1,019 m3,324m
- Punta Merciantaira13 km away · prominence 479 m3,293m
- Mont Chaberton5.7 km away · prominence 1,281 m3,132m
- Roc del Boucher11 km away · prominence 182 m3,285m
- Cima del Pelvo13 km away · prominence 114 m3,264m
- Cima Clausi12 km away3,226m
- Pic de Petit Rochebrune13 km away · prominence 248 m3,078m
- Pic Lombard12 km away2,975m
41 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
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
Dora Riparia in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
PoItaly652 km1,500 m³/sTributaries (4)
Also: Dora di Bardonecchia, Ripa, Messa, Torrente Prebec
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q670414) · 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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