River
Jalón River
224 km from source to mouth · Spain.
SpainFlows into Ebro
In numbers
Length
224km
Average flow
21m³/s
Basin
9,718km²
Drop
736m
from 1,023 m to 287 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
224 km of river and 21 stops on the way: 11 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSierra Ministraat 1,023 m
- 0 kmEsteras de Medinaceli25 people
- 87 kmAlhama de Aragón917 people
- 92 kmRío Henartributary
- 96 kmBubierca66 people
- 103 kmCastejón de las Armas87 people
- 104 kmPiedra rivertributary
- 106 kmManubles rivertributary
- 106 kmAteca1,785 people
- 111 kmCastle of Alcocer
- 111 kmviaduct over the Jalón river
- 118 kmTerrer580 people
- 130 kmCalatayud20,158 people
- 131 kmJilocatributary
- 135 kmPerejiles rivertributary
- 167 kmPurroy2,438 people
- 177 kmBridge of Capurnos
- 188 kmAranda rivertributary
- 192 kmGrio rivertributary
- 198 kmCalatorao3,047 people
- 206 kmValdejalón30,377 people
- 214 kmÉpila4,114 people
- 224 kmEbroat 287 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River of Spain main affluent of the Ebro by the right margin
At the mouth it carries 21 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 120 seconds. It drops from 1,023 m to 287 m, 3.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 9,718 km², about the size of CY. 116,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to January and from May to June. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 52% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- ValdejalónLargest city on its banks · 30,377 people
- Zaragoza Airport (ZAZ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 25 km from the cityCar hire in ZaragozaDiscover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Jalón River, month by month
Highest water: from December to January and from May to June
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 1.9 m³/s in the lowest month to 19 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
Jalón River: the basin in numbers
9,442 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 116,000people live in the basin
- 12/km²people per km²
- 942maverage altitude of the basin
- 469mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.8°Caverage air temperature
- 1%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 16% Forest
- 44% Cropland
- 9% 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
Jalón River: what you find on the way
- 5WeirsAzud de Vergara, Azud de Carrau, Azud de Campiel and 2 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.8 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Jalón 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.
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Sierra Ministra5.6 km away
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
Jalón River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
EbroSpain910 km430 m³/sTributaries (11)
Also: Jiloca, Piedra river, Aranda river, Manubles river, Grio river, Perejiles river, Río Henar, Río Nájima, Rambla de Ribota, Monegrillo, Arroyo Almuguera
Nearby
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FranceWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q20380) · 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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