River
Javary River
1,056 km from source to mouth · Brazil and Peru.
Brazil and PeruFlows into Amazon River
In numbers
Length
1,056km
Average flow
2,500m³/s
Basin
90,000km²
Drop
164m
from 225 m to 61 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
1,056 km of river and 16 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 225 m
- 553 kmLaguna Iparanga1.0 km²
- 557 kmLaguna Tefue0.3 km²
- 559 kmLaguna Tipishka0.9 km²
- 592 kmLaguna Frontera1.0 km²
- 628 kmCuruçá Rivertributary
- 678 kmLaguna Foli1.5 km²
- 722 kmLago do Rodrigues0.8 km²
- 868 kmLaguna Cururú1.6 km²
- 870 kmLago Piranha0.4 km²
- 875 kmLago do Tambaqui0.4 km²
- 925 kmLaguna San António2.0 km²
- 928 kmLaguna Boyasú1.1 km²
- 941 kmLaguna Apagón0.3 km²
- 946 kmAtalaia do Norte15,892 people
- 947 kmItaquai Rivertributary
- 995 kmBenjamin Constant43,935 people
- 1,056 kmAmazon Riverat 61 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Brazil and Peru
At the mouth it carries 2,463 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 1.0 seconds. It drops from 225 m to 61 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 90,000 km², about the size of RS. 58,000 people live in it. Highest water: from February to May. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Benjamin ConstantLargest city on its banks · 43,935 people
- Tabatinga International Airport (TBT)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 17 km from the cityCar hire at RBR airport (Rio Branco)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From July to AugustThe best months to visit
Javary River, month by month
Highest water: from February to May
Best months to visit: from July to August.
From about 3,000 m³/s in the lowest month to 7,600 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
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The basin
Javary River: the basin in numbers
109,079 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 58,000people live in the basin
- 1/km²people per km²
- 153maverage altitude of the basin
- 2,469mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 25.8°Caverage air temperature
- 72%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 98% Forest
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
Javary River: what you find on the way
- 2Ferry piersAtalaia do Norte, Benjamin Constant
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Javary 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.
12lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (12)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Laguna Iparangakm 4931.0km²
- Laguna Folikm 6051.5km²
- Lago do Rodrigueskm 6440.8km²
- Laguna Cururúkm 7751.6km²
- Lago Piranhakm 7760.4km²
- Lago do Tambaquikm 7800.4km²
- Laguna San Antóniokm 8262.0km²
- Laguna Boyasúkm 8281.1km²
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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
Javary River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Amazon RiverBrazil6,400 km209,000 m³/sTributaries (5)
Also: Ituí River, Curuçá River, Itaquai River, Yavari-Mirin River, Gálvez River
In the same basin
Brazil2,250 km30,000 m³/sMadeira RiverBrazil1,450 km31,200 m³/sMarañón RiverPeru1,737 km16,700 m³/sUcayali RiverPeru1,460 km12,600 m³/sJapurá RiverBrazil2,820 km13,900 m³/sXingu RiverBrazil1,640 km9,700 m³/sMamoré RiverBrazil1,930 km11,600 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 (Q941329) · 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 — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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