River
Küçük Menderes River
114 km from source to mouth · Turkey.
TurkeyFlows into Aegean Sea
In numbers
Length
114km
Average flow
11m³/s
Basin
3,502km²
Drop
260m
from 260 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
114 km of river and 3 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 260 m
- 96 kmBelevi2,174 people
- 109 kmLake Çatal0.5 km²
- 110 kmLake Gebekirse0.5 km²
- 114 kmAegean Seaat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in İzmir, western Turkey
At the mouth it carries 11 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 218 seconds. It drops from 260 m to 0 m, 2.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,502 km², about the size of CV. 389,000 people live in it. Highest water: January; lowest: from June to September. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- BeleviLargest city on its banks · 2,174 people
- Adnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 40 km from the cityCar hire at ADB airport (Gaziemir)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From April to June and from September to OctoberThe best months to visit
Küçük Menderes River, month by month
Highest water: January
Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from April to June and from September to October.
From about 2.5 m³/s in the lowest month to 98 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
Küçük Menderes River: the basin in numbers
3,419 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 389,000people live in the basin
- 114/km²people per km²
- 372maverage altitude of the basin
- 713mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 15.3°Caverage air temperature
What covers the basin
- 14% Forest
- 40% Cropland
- 4% Pasture
- 5% 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
Küçük Menderes River: what you find on the way
- 1River beachesZeytin Plajı
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Küçük Menderes 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.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
1beach at the mouth or on the banksCoastya
3mountains at the sourcePeakyas
1island off the mouthIslandyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lake Çatalkm 1140.5km²
- Lake Gebekirsekm 1150.5km²
Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗
Beaches (1)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Kadınlar Plajı13 km away23.9°C
Mountains at the source (3)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Pınar Dağı9.3 km away
- Çulha Dağı13 km away
- Göcen Dağı12 km away
Islands off the mouth (1)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Güvercinada11 km away
Islandyas is coming soonOpen Islandyas ↗
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.
Nearby
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Greece230 km40 m³/s385 km awayKöprüçay RiverTurkey183 km36 m³/s368 km awayStrumaGreece415 km80 m³/s429 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q922382) · 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, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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