River
Grande River
820 km from source to mouth · Bolivia.
BoliviaFlows into Mamoré River4th longest in Bolivia
In numbers
Length
820km
Average flow
1,800m³/s
Basin
101,900km²
Drop
1,490m
from 1,659 m to 169 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
820 km of river and 9 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,659 m
- 1 kmCaine Rivertributary
- 1 kmSan Pedro Rivertributary
- 145 kmMizque Rivertributary
- 456 kmPailas Bridge
- 679 kmPailas Lake11 km²
- 696 kmEspaña Lake27 km²
- 733 kmTejas Lake5.6 km²
- 747 kmYapacaní Rivertributary
- 758 kmLaguna de Palmira50 km²
- 820 kmMamoré Riverat 169 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Right tributary of the Marmoré River in Bolivia
At the mouth it carries 1,805 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 1.4 seconds. It drops from 1,659 m to 169 m, 1.8 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 101,900 km², about the size of CS. 4.2 million people live in it. Highest water: from February to March; lowest: from July to October. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- TrinidadLargest city on its banks · 84,259 people
- Teniente Av. Jorge Henrich Arauz Airport (TDD)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 2 km from the cityCar hire at CBB airport (Cochabamba)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Grande River, month by month
Highest water: from February to March
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 580 m³/s in the lowest month to 3,600 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
Grande River: the basin in numbers
126,602 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 4.2millionpeople live in the basin
- 33/km²people per km²
- 1,464maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,237mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 20.1°Caverage air temperature
- 12%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 48% Forest
- 5% Cropland
- 25% Pasture
- 1% 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
Grande River: what you find on the way
- 1River beachesPlaya de Lodo
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Grande River 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.
4lakes on its wayLakeyas
4mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (4)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Pailas Lakekm 80611km²
- España Lakekm 82727km²
- Tejas Lakekm 8725.6km²
- Laguna de Palmirakm 90150km²
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Mountains at the source (4)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Cerro Cajcha Punta8.4 km away3,094m
- Cerro Alizo Punta8.3 km away2,977m
- Cerro Horno Khasa14 km away2,491m
- Chupa Loma8.5 km away2,372m
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
Grande River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Mamoré River
Brazil1,930 km11,600 m³/sTributaries (5)
Also: Caine River, Yapacaní River, San Pedro River, Mizque River, Zudáñez River
In the same basin
Brazil6,400 km209,000 m³/sRio NegroBrazil2,250 km30,000 m³/sMadeira RiverBrazil1,450 km31,200 m³/sMarañón River
Peru1,737 km16,700 m³/sUcayali RiverPeru1,460 km12,600 m³/sJapurá RiverBrazil2,820 km13,900 m³/sXingu RiverBrazil1,640 km9,700 m³/sJuruá RiverBrazil3,100 km4,800 m³/sTapajós RiverBrazil1,930 km13,000 m³/sPutumayo RiverBrazil1,610 km7,000 m³/sWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1519602) · 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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