River
Jialing River
1,119 km from source to mouth · China.
ChinaFlows into Yangtze River
In numbers
Length
1,119km
Average flow
2,100m³/s
Basin
160,000km²
Drop
1,151m
from 1,306 m to 155 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
1,119 km of river and 44 stops on the way: 29 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,306 m
- 92 kmYongning Rivertributary
- 98 kmJialing9,957 people
- 152 kmXihan Rivertributary
- 170 kmLüeyang Chengguanzhen67,496 people
- 288 kmChaotian29,424 people
- 317 kmGuangyuan516,424 people
- 339 kmBailong Rivertributary
- 477 kmTingzikou Dam
- 530 kmLangzhong60,542 people
- 578 kmNanlong63,405 people
- 641 kmXihe Rivertributary
- 747 kmNanchong1,858,875 people
- 748 kmGaoping204,368 people
- 920 kmGulou19,447 people
- 934 kmDashi61,426 people
- 953 kmYunmen68,698 people
- 961 kmQu Rivertributary
- 968 kmYangcheng186,242 people
- 969 kmDiaoyucheng47,205 people
- 969 kmHechuan377,213 people
- 970 kmNanjin143,766 people
- 970 kmFu Rivertributary
- 981 kmCaojie44,237 people
- 987 kmYanjing24,680 people
- 999 kmChengjiang28,056 people
- 1,007 kmDongyang40,143 people
- 1,008 kmBeibei247,702 people
- 1,008 kmLongfeng33,981 people
- 1,013 kmShijialiang8,773 people
- 1,016 kmCaijiagang35,564 people
- 1,016 kmShuitu44,551 people
- 1,023 kmYuelai10,654 people
- 1,031 kmLijia15,923 people
- 1,038 kmTongjiaxi21,820 people
- 1,054 kmGaojia Huayuan Jialing River Transit Bridge
- 1,056 kmShimen Jialing River Bridge
- 1,058 kmHongyancun Bridge
- 1,061 kmJiahua Rail Bridge
- 1,061 kmJiahua Bridge
- 1,063 kmYu'ao Bridge
- 1,065 kmChongqing Shi12,135,000 people
- 1,066 kmChongqing22,000,000 people
- 1,068 kmQiansimen Jialing River Bridge
- 1,068 kmTwin River Bridges
- 1,119 kmYangtze Riverat 155 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Tributary of Yangtze in Sichuan, China
At the mouth it carries 2,130 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 1.2 seconds. It drops from 1,306 m to 155 m, 1.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 160,000 km², about the size of SR. 117 million people live in it. Highest water: from September to October; lowest: from January to April. Its dams hold back little of its water (4.7% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- ChongqingLargest city on its banks · 22,000,000 people
- Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport (CKG)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 19 km from the city
- On the water46 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From March to May and from October to NovemberThe best months to visit
Jialing River, month by month
Highest water: from September to October
Lowest water: from January to April. Best months to visit: from March to May and from October to November.
From about 2,600 m³/s in the lowest month to 25,000 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
Jialing River: the basin in numbers
839,204 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 117millionpeople live in the basin
- 141/km²people per km²
- 2,860maverage altitude of the basin
- 790mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 6.9°Caverage air temperature
- 29%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 14%permafrost
- 16km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 32% Forest
- 15% Cropland
- 43% Pasture
- 4% 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
Jialing River: what you find on the way
- 18Weirs
- 6Locks
- 2Waterfalls
- 2Boat ramps
- 40Ferry piersSansheng West Ferry Terminal, Sansheng East Ferry Terminal and 38 more
- 4Marinas
- 1River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 3.0 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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
Jialing River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Yangtze RiverChina6,300 km31,900 m³/sTributaries (7)
Also: Fu River, Qu River, Bailong River, Xihan River, Yongning River, Liujiang River, Xihe River
In the same basin
China1,532 km2,200 m³/sHuai RiverChina1,110 km1,200 m³/sYalong RiverChina1,323 km2,000 m³/sGan RiverChina758 km1,700 m³/sWu RiverChina1,150 km1,800 m³/sXiang RiverChina801 km6,400 m³/sMin RiverChina711 km2,300 m³/sYuan RiverChina993 km2,000 m³/sDadu RiverChina642 km1,400 m³/sJinsha RiverChina3,005 km4,500 m³/sWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1045185) · 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 |
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