River
Gran Valira
44 km from source to mouth · Spain and Andorra.
Spain and AndorraFlows into Segre
In numbers
Length
44km
Average flow
10m³/s
Basin
592km²
Drop
730m
from 1,409 m to 679 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
44 km of river and 17 stops on the way: 12 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,409 m
- 0 kmEl Tarter1,003 people
- 3 kmCascada de la Vall del Riu
- 5 kmCanillo3,292 people
- 9 kmLes Bons1,171 people
- 10 kmEncamp11,223 people
- 12 kmVila1,418 people
- 17 kmles Escaldes15,853 people
- 18 kmAndorra la Vella24,042 people
- 21 kmSanta Coloma3,236 people
- 23 kmPont de la Margineda
- 25 kmAixirivall1,041 people
- 26 kmSant Julià de Lòria8,022 people
- 37 kmPont de Cortingles
- 39 kmLes Valls de Valira845 people
- 39 kmPont d'Anserall
- 42 kmLa Seu d'Urgell13,009 people
- 43 kmPont de Castellciutat
- 44 kmSegreat 679 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Andorra and Spain
At the mouth it carries 10 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 243 seconds. It drops from 1,409 m to 679 m, 17 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 592 km².
Where to start
- Andorra la VellaLargest city on its banks · 24,042 people
- Pirineus - la Seu d'Urgel Airport (LEU)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 21 km from the cityCar hire at CCF airport (Carcassonne)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
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Along the river
Gran Valira: what you find on the way
- 13Weirs
- 7WaterfallsCascada de les Moles, Cascada del Riu d'Urina, Toll Bullidor and 4 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Gran Valira 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
121mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Cascada de la Vall del Riukm 2
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Mountains at the source (121)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Pic de la Portelleta13 km away · prominence 389 m2,905m
- Puigpedrós14 km away · prominence 644 m2,915m
- Pic de l'Estanyó4.9 km away · prominence 518 m2,915m
- Pic de Serrère5.8 km away · prominence 231 m2,912m
- Pic de Font Blanca12 km away · prominence 394 m2,903m
- Pic de Tristagne14 km away · prominence 339 m2,878m
- Casamanya5.7 km away · prominence 210 m2,750m
- Pic de la Colilla13 km away · prominence 83 m2,836m
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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
Gran Valira in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
SegreSpain265 km100 m³/sTributaries (5)
Also: Valira del Nord river, Runer, Valira d'Orient, Riu d'Enclar, Riu d'Ós
Nearby
Rivers nearby
FranceWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q24853) · 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 | Cascadyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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