River
Hari River
1,150 km from source to mouth · Turkmenistan, Iran and Afghanistan.
Turkmenistan, Iran and AfghanistanFlows into Karakum Desert1st longest in Turkmenistan
In numbers
Length
1,150km
Average flow
30m³/s
Basin
70,600km²
Drop
2,786m
from 2,953 m to 167 m
Countries
3
The journey
From source to mouth
1,150 km of river and 10 stops on the way: 6 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 2,953 m
- 149 kmFayrōz Kōh15,000 people
- 239 kmMinaret of Jam
- 492 kmMalan bridge
- 540 kmZindah Jān10,418 people
- 611 kmKuhsān12,087 people
- 801 kmIran–Turkmenistan Friendship Dam
- 806 kmKashaf Rivertributary
- 886 kmSarahs31,269 people
- 888 kmSarakhs46,499 people
- 1,063 kmBabadaykhan13,440 people
- 1,150 kmKarakum Desertat 167 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Afghanistan, Iran and Turkmenistan
At the mouth it carries 30 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 83 seconds. It drops from 2,953 m to 167 m, 2.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 70,600 km², about the size of IE. 5.2 million people live in it. Highest water: from February to April; lowest: from July to October. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- SarakhsLargest city on its banks · 46,499 people
- Mary International Airport (MYP)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 137 km from the city
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Hari River, month by month
Highest water: from February to April
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 16 m³/s in the lowest month to 760 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
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The basin
Hari River: the basin in numbers
79,853 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 5.2millionpeople live in the basin
- 66/km²people per km²
- 1,519maverage altitude of the basin
- 270mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 11.0°Caverage air temperature
- 1%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 15% Cropland
- 64% Pasture
- 2% 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
Hari River: what you find on the way
- 27Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Hari 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.
49mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (49)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Kōh-e Sar-e Zanbūrak13 km away3,982m
- Kōh-e Band-e Chōpānak14 km away3,976m
- Kōh-e Āsprāh12 km away3,920m
- Sang-e Āwak8.3 km away3,877m
- Kōh-e Ābtū7.7 km away3,775m
- Kōh-e Kējak15 km away3,709m
- Kōh-e Ispī Gulī5.9 km away3,641m
- Kōh-e Khirs Darah9.1 km away3,319m
41 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
Hari River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (2)
Also: Kashaf River, Jamrud River
UzbekistanWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q8505) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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