River
Kodori River
84 km from source to mouth · Georgia.
GeorgiaFlows into Black Sea9th longest in Georgia
In numbers
Length
84km
Average flow
140m³/s
Basin
2,051km²
Drop
720m
from 720 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
84 km of river and 8 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmGvandraat 720 m
- 0 kmGvandratributary
- 2 kmSakenitributary
- 14 kmChkhaltatributary
- 50 kmAmtkeli Rivertributary
- 57 kmTekhi
- 70 kmVladimirovka1,676 people
- 78 kmAdzyubzha1,072 people
- 79 kmVarch’a2,677 people
- 84 kmBlack Seaat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Georgia
At the mouth it carries 144 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 17 seconds. It drops from 720 m to 0 m, 8.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,051 km², about the size of MU. 24,000 people live in it. Highest water: from November to January. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Varch’aLargest city on its banks · 2,677 people
- Vladislav Ardzinba Sukhum International Airport (SUI)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 2 km from the cityCar hire at KUT airport (Kopitnari)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- Kayak and canoe10 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Kodori River, month by month
Highest water: from November to January
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 16 m³/s in the lowest month to 170 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
Kodori River: the basin in numbers
2,086 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 24,000people live in the basin
- 12/km²people per km²
- 1,665maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,113mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 5.6°Caverage air temperature
- 1%protected areas
- 2%glaciers
- 7%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 46% Forest
- 2% Cropland
- 40% Pasture
- 2% 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
Kodori River: what you find on the way
- 6Waterfalls
- 10Rapids
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Kodori 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.
11mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (11)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Didi Khutia7.3 km away3,513m
- Khojali14 km away · prominence 1,192 m3,314m
- Mtsire Khutia14 km away3,280m
- Mta Akharva6.2 km away · prominence 132 m2,521m
- Gora Vostochnaya Agarva10 km away
- Gora Oyuuzets9.3 km away
- Gora Kalamra-Suki13 km away
- Mta Namshikhi10 km away
3 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
Kodori River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (5)
Also: Amtkeli River, Chkhalta, Gvandra, Sakeni, Mramba
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Georgia327 km400 m³/s77 km awayEnguriGeorgia213 km40 m³/s56 km awayBzyb RiverGeorgia110 km97 m³/s82 km awayPsouGeorgia53 km19 m³/s113 km awayÇoruhGeorgia438 km280 m³/s138 km awayTskhenistsqaliGeorgia184 km90 m³/s121 km awayQvirila RiverGeorgia140 km90 m³/s148 km awayAragvi RiverGeorgia112 km33 m³/s314 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1048890) · 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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