River
Gialias
88 km from source to mouth · Cyprus.
CyprusFlows into Mediterranean Sea2nd longest in Cyprus
In numbers
Length
88km
Average flow
2.6m³/s
Basin
1,769km²
Drop
128m
from 128 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
88 km of river and 2 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 128 m
- 76 kmAcherítou1,721 people
- 85 kmÉgkomi20,502 people
- 88 kmMediterranean Seaat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Cyprus
At the mouth it carries 2.6 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 972 seconds. It drops from 128 m to 0 m, 1.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,769 km², about the size of GP. 380,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to 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
- ÉgkomiLargest city on its banks · 20,502 people
- Ercan International Airport (ECN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 34 km from the cityCar hire at ECN airport (Tymbou)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From April to June and from September to OctoberThe best months to visit
Gialias, month by month
Highest water: from December to January
Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from April to June and from September to October.
From about 0.0 m³/s in the lowest month to 7.0 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
Gialias: the basin in numbers
1,769 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 380,000people live in the basin
- 215/km²people per km²
- 179maverage altitude of the basin
- 387mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 18.6°Caverage air temperature
- 2%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 2% Forest
- 27% Cropland
- 13% 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
Gialias: what you find on the way
- 3River beachesGlapsides Beach, Beach Club, Silver Beach
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Gialias 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.
5beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
11mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Beaches (5)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Nissi Beach20 km away27.5°C
- Vrissiana Beach21 km away28.1°C
- Makronisos Bay Beach20 km away27.5°C
- Poseidon Beach21 km away27.5°C
- Pernera Beach21 km away28.1°C
Mountains at the source (11)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Kyrenia Mountains11 km away
- Gerogiannis10 km away
- Kommorotso14 km away
- Vlokkaria13 km away
- Arona12 km away
- Arnologos10 km away
- Saranta Spilii6.9 km away
- Trypa tou Vouno11 km away
3 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.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
In the same basin
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Cyprus100 km15 m³/s0 km awayRiver Göksu
Turkey260 km92 m³/s127 km awayOrontes RiverTurkey571 km30 m³/s210 km awayKouris RiverCyprus38 km1.8 m³/s135 km awaySeyhan RiverTurkey560 km130 m³/s195 km awayCeyhan RiverTurkey474 km230 m³/s216 km awayLitani River
Lebanon140 km23 m³/s237 km awayNahr al-KalbLebanon31 km3.2 m³/s204 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2059947) · 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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