River
Golo
89 km from source to mouth · France.
FranceFlows into Tyrrhenian Sea
In numbers
Length
89km
Average flow
14m³/s
Basin
926km²
Drop
800m
from 798 m to -2 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
89 km of river and 4 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmAlbertacceat 798 m
- 6 kmLac de Calacuccia0.9 km²
- 44 kmCasalunatributary
- 44 kmAscotributary
- 53 kmPont de Ponte Novo
- 89 kmTyrrhenian Seaat -2 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in France
At the mouth it carries 14 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 177 seconds. It drops from 798 m to -2 m, 8.9 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 926 km², about the size of HK. 13,000 people live in it. Highest water: from November to December; lowest: from June to September. Its dams hold back little of its water (5.0% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- VescovatoLargest city on its banks · 2,555 people
- Bastia-Poretta International airport (BIA)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 8 km from the cityCar hire at BIA airport (Bastia)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
Golo, month by month
Highest water: from November to December
Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 3.1 m³/s in the lowest month to 28 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
Golo: the basin in numbers
1,008 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 13,000people live in the basin
- 13/km²people per km²
- 897maverage altitude of the basin
- 804mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.9°Caverage air temperature
- 58%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
- 0.0km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 33% Forest
- 3% Cropland
- 21% 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
Golo: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Golo 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
4beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
58mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lac de Calacucciakm 50.9km²
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Beaches (4)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Banda Bianca15 km away25.4°C
- Moriani-Plage17 km away25.5°C
- Anse de Porto-Vecchio19 km away · cove25.4°C
- Anse de Toga21 km away · cove25.4°C
Mountains at the source (58)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Monte Cinto8.0 km away · prominence 2,706 m2,706m
- Paglia Orba1.2 km away · prominence 530 m2,525m
- Punta Minuta5.8 km away2,556m
- Capo Bianco12 km away2,562m
- Monte Cinto massif8.0 km away2,706m
- Capo al Berdato11 km away2,583m
- Capu Larghia6.2 km away2,503m
- Capu Falu6.3 km away2,540m
50 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
Golo in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (3)
Also: Asco, Casaluna, Erco
ItalyWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q649519) · 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, Coastya, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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