River
Konqi He
550 km from source to mouth · China.
ChinaFlows into Tarim River
In numbers
Length
550km
Average flow
1.6m³/s
Basin
184,400km²
Drop
256m
from 1,047 m to 791 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
550 km of river and 4 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmBosten Lakeat 1,047 m
- 0 kmBosten Lake962 km²
- 12 kmCha-la-k'e-hsiang-no-erh Hu1.3 km²
- 53 kmKorla549,324 people
- 153 kmYuli22,474 people
- 550 kmTarim Riverat 791 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in the People's Republic of China
At the mouth it carries 1.6 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 1,518 seconds. It drops from 1,047 m to 791 m, 0.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 184,400 km², about the size of SY. 1.1 million people live in it. Highest water: from July to August; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- KorlaLargest city on its banks · 549,324 people
- Korla Licheng Airport (KRL)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 16 km from the city
- From April to June and from August to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Konqi He, month by month
Highest water: from July to August
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from December to January. Best months to visit: from April to June and from August to September.
From about 0.0 m³/s in the lowest month to 9.4 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
Konqi He: the basin in numbers
77,203 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.1millionpeople live in the basin
- 14/km²people per km²
- 1,853maverage altitude of the basin
- 142mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 4.7°Caverage air temperature
- 4%protected areas
- 1.3%covered by lakes
- 1%glaciers
- 10%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 7% Forest
- 2% Cropland
- 30% Pasture
- 1% 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
Konqi He: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Konqi He in our other atlases
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2lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Bosten Lakekm 0 · 17 m deep962km²
- Cha-la-k'e-hsiang-no-erh Hukm 141.3km²
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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
Konqi He in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Tarim RiverChina2,030 km920 m³/sTributaries (1)
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q625404) · 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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