River
Gunt River
296 km from source to mouth · Tajikistan.
TajikistanFlows into Panj River5th longest in Tajikistan
In numbers
Length
296km
Average flow
100m³/s
Basin
13,700km²
Drop
2,076m
from 4,142 m to 2,066 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
296 km of river and 3 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 4,142 m
- 141 kmYashikul35 km²
- 289 kmKhorugh30,500 people
- 292 kmShakhdaratributary
- 296 kmPanj Riverat 2,066 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Tajikistan
At the mouth it carries 103 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 24 seconds. It drops from 4,142 m to 2,066 m, 7.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 13,700 km², about the size of BS. 148,000 people live in it. Highest water, with the snowmelt: May; lowest: from January to March and September. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- KhorughLargest city on its banks · 30,500 people
- Kulob International Airport (TJU)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 163 km from the city
- From July to AugustThe best months to visit
Gunt River, month by month
Highest water: May
Lowest water: from January to March and September. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: from July to August.
From about 13 m³/s in the lowest month to 460 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
Gunt River: the basin in numbers
29,844 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 148,000people live in the basin
- 5/km²people per km²
- 4,327maverage altitude of the basin
- 417mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -3.6°Caverage air temperature
- 9%protected areas
- 0.5%covered by lakes
- 5%glaciers
- 55%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 1% Cropland
- 9% Pasture
- 5% Ice
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
Gunt River: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Gunt 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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Yashikulkm 141 · 52 m deep35km²
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Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Kŭhi Dulangtosh5.9 km away4,733m
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
Gunt River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Panj RiverTajikistan921 km1,000 m³/sTributaries (1)
Also: Shakhdara
In the same basin
Uzbekistan2,620 km1,400 m³/sVakhsh RiverTajikistan524 km160 m³/sZeravshanUzbekistan877 km160 m³/sBartang RiverTajikistan528 km130 m³/sKokcha River
Afghanistan360 km180 m³/sQashqadaryo RiverUzbekistan378 km25 m³/sSurxondaryoUzbekistan175 km66 m³/sKofarnihon RiverTajikistan387 km160 m³/sPamir RiverAfghanistan118 km13 m³/sKunduz RiverAfghanistan420 km160 m³/sNearby
Rivers nearby
Tajikistan528 km130 m³/s49 km awayPamir RiverAfghanistan118 km13 m³/s114 km awayWakhan RiverAfghanistan220 km16 m³/s114 km awayKokcha RiverAfghanistan360 km180 m³/s192 km awayVakhsh RiverTajikistan524 km160 m³/s286 km awayKunduz RiverAfghanistan420 km160 m³/s295 km awayKofarnihon RiverTajikistan387 km160 m³/s318 km awayKunar RiverAfghanistan480 km370 m³/s355 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1554866) · 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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