River
Genil
358 km from source to mouth · Spain.
SpainFlows into Guadalquivir4th longest in Spain
In numbers
Length
358km
Average flow
40m³/s
Basin
8,278km²
Drop
755m
from 798 m to 43 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
358 km of river and 35 stops on the way: 22 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 798 m
- 9 kmCanales Reservoir1.3 km²
- 18 kmCenes de la Vega6,295 people
- 18 kmMonachil5,843 people
- 22 kmHuétor Vega11,324 people
- 22 kmCájar4,002 people
- 26 kmPuente del Genil
- 26 kmPuente del Cristo de la Expiración
- 26 kmGranada233,532 people
- 30 kmArmilla21,380 people
- 31 kmChurriana de la Vega12,001 people
- 36 kmCúllar-Vega5,487 people
- 38 kmBeirotributary
- 38 kmDílartributary
- 43 kmAtarfe15,399 people
- 44 kmSantafé15,430 people
- 53 kmChauchina4,357 people
- 56 kmFuente Vaqueros3,955 people
- 59 kmCubillastributary
- 64 kmEiffel Bridge, Láchar
- 96 kmCacíntributary
- 97 kmHuétor-Tájar9,105 people
- 110 kmCascada de Los Infiernos
- 113 kmLoja21,574 people
- 142 kmIznájar4,913 people
- 154 kmIznájar Reservoir16 km²
- 157 kmCuevas de San Marcos3,955 people
- 181 kmPuente sobre el Río Genil
- 181 kmBenamejí4,895 people
- 214 kmBadolatosa3,184 people
- 225 kmEmbalse de Cordobilla0.8 km²
- 237 kmPuente-Genil30,241 people
- 281 kmCabra Rivertributary
- 303 kmÉcija39,882 people
- 348 kmPalma del Río21,159 people
- 354 kmPeñaflor3,688 people
- 358 kmGuadalquivirat 43 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Spain
At the mouth it carries 40 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 62 seconds. It drops from 798 m to 43 m, 2.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 8,278 km², about the size of PR. 2.4 million people live in it. Highest water: from December to February; lowest: from June to September. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 169% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- GranadaLargest city on its banks · 233,532 people
- F.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 15 km from the cityCar hire at GRX airport (Granada)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From April to June and from September to OctoberThe best months to visit
Genil, month by month
Highest water: from December to February
Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from April to June and from September to October.
From about 14 m³/s in the lowest month to 330 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
Genil: the basin in numbers
40,467 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 2.4millionpeople live in the basin
- 59/km²people per km²
- 698maverage altitude of the basin
- 550mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 15.2°Caverage air temperature
- 17%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 5.8km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 17% Forest
- 53% Cropland
- 9% Pasture
- 2% 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
Genil: what you find on the way
- 23WeirsAzud de Nuevo Castillo and 22 more
- 3Waterfalls
- 1River beachesPlaya de Valdearenas
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Genil 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.
1waterfall on the riverCascadyas
3lakes on its wayLakeyas
7mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Cascada de Los Infiernoskm 78
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Lakes and reservoirs (3)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Canales Reservoirkm 61.3km²
- Iznájar Reservoirkm 10816km²
- Embalse de Cordobillakm 1590.8km²
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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
Genil in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
GuadalquivirSpain657 km160 m³/sTributaries (13)
Also: Darro, Monachil, Cubillas, Cacín, Dílar, Guarnón, Beiro, Aguas Blancas, Arroyo de Noniles, Cabra River, Real, Arroyo de San Juan, Maitena River
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Portugal778 km70 m³/s192 km awayGuadaleteSpain159 km20 m³/s147 km awayGuadalhorceSpain166 km8.0 m³/s138 km awayTinto RiverSpain100 km14 m³/s150 km awayAlbercheSpain100 km15 m³/s257 km awayTagus RiverPortugal1,007 km500 m³/s349 km awayJaramaSpain194 km32 m³/s298 km awaySado RiverPortugal180 km40 m³/s297 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q17760) · 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 | Cascadyas, Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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