River
Kokcha River
360 km from source to mouth · Afghanistan.
AfghanistanFlows into Panj River5th longest in Afghanistan
In numbers
Length
360km
Average flow
180m³/s
Basin
20,700km²
Drop
2,099m
from 2,510 m to 411 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
360 km of river and 3 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmHindu Kushat 2,510 m
- 113 kmJurm23,064 people
- 168 kmFayzabad44,421 people
- 344 kmĀrt Khwājah18,623 people
- 360 kmPanj Riverat 411 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Afghanistan
At the mouth it carries 180 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 14 seconds. It drops from 2,510 m to 411 m, 5.8 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 20,700 km², about the size of IL. 2.6 million people live in it. Highest water: from April to May; lowest: from August to November. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- FayzabadLargest city on its banks · 44,421 people
- Kulob International Airport (TJU)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 119 km from the city
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Kokcha River, month by month
Highest water: from April to May
Lowest water: from August to November. Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 270 m³/s in the lowest month to 2,600 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
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Kokcha River: the basin in numbers
112,458 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 2.6millionpeople live in the basin
- 23/km²people per km²
- 3,542maverage altitude of the basin
- 530mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 0.3°Caverage air temperature
- 14%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 3%glaciers
- 36%permafrost
- 0.0km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 6% Cropland
- 29% Pasture
- 3% 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
Kokcha River: what you find on the way
- 10Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Kokcha River in our other atlases
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35mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (35)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Kōh-e Khākistarak Dahānak15 km away5,862m
- Kōh-e Sang-e Ujnē13 km away5,396m
- Kōh-e Dō Shākhghī14 km away5,213m
- Kōh-e Kān-e Zamch11 km away5,075m
- Kōh-e Dasht-e Kalān9.9 km away4,977m
- Sar-e Gurdarah14 km away4,975m
- Kōh-e Silikāyik14 km away4,912m
- Kōh-e Parwarah12 km away4,905m
27 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
Kokcha River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Panj River
Tajikistan921 km1,000 m³/sTributaries (1)
Also: Warduj
In the same basin
Uzbekistan2,620 km1,400 m³/sVakhsh RiverTajikistan524 km160 m³/sZeravshanUzbekistan877 km160 m³/sBartang RiverTajikistan528 km130 m³/sQashqadaryo RiverUzbekistan378 km25 m³/sSurxondaryoUzbekistan175 km66 m³/sKofarnihon RiverTajikistan387 km160 m³/sGunt RiverTajikistan296 km100 m³/sPamir RiverAfghanistan118 km13 m³/sKunduz RiverAfghanistan420 km160 m³/sNearby
Rivers nearby
Tajikistan524 km160 m³/s95 km awayKunduz RiverAfghanistan420 km160 m³/s103 km awayKofarnihon RiverTajikistan387 km160 m³/s127 km awaySurxondaryoUzbekistan175 km66 m³/s185 km awayBartang RiverTajikistan528 km130 m³/s210 km awayGunt RiverTajikistan296 km100 m³/s192 km awayPamir RiverAfghanistan118 km13 m³/s291 km awayWakhan RiverAfghanistan220 km16 m³/s291 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2420095) · 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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