River
Kouris River
38 km from source to mouth · Cyprus.
CyprusFlows into Episkopi Bay3rd longest in Cyprus
In numbers
Length
38km
Average flow
1.8m³/s
Basin
226km²
Drop
277m
from 277 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
38 km of river and 1 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmTroodos Mountainsat 277 m
- 34 kmAsprokremmos Reservoir0.8 km²
- 38 kmEpiskopi Bayat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Cyprus
At the mouth it carries 1.8 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 1,371 seconds. It drops from 277 m to 0 m, 7.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 226 km².
Where to start
- KoloniLargest city on its banks · 264 people
- Paphos International Airport (PFO)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 4 km from the cityCar hire at PFO airport (Paphos)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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Along the river
Kouris River: what you find on the way
- 1River beachesHidden Beach
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Kouris 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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
2beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
21mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Asprokremmos Reservoirkm 280.8km²
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Beaches (2)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Aphrodisiac Beach9.4 km away27.6°C
- Faros Beach15 km away27.8°C
Mountains at the source (21)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Mount Olympus15 km away · prominence 1,952 m1,952m
- Kykkos6.7 km away
- Kalogyros10 km away
- Moutti tous Drimitides3.6 km away
- Moutti ton Kofinion3.8 km away
- Kampia12 km away
- Paoura13 km away
- Mavrogenis7.6 km away
13 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
Kouris River in pictures
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Cyprus100 km15 m³/s135 km awayGialiasCyprus88 km2.6 m³/s135 km awayRiver Göksu
Turkey260 km92 m³/s224 km awayManavgat RiverTurkey93 km150 m³/s249 km awayLitani River
Lebanon140 km23 m³/s291 km awayKöprüçay RiverTurkey183 km36 m³/s267 km awayNile
Egypt6,650 km2,800 m³/s414 km awaySeyhan RiverTurkey560 km130 m³/s310 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q12879320) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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, Coastya, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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