River
Les Trois Rivières
150 km from source to mouth · Haiti.
HaitiFlows into Atlantic Ocean2nd longest in Haiti
In numbers
Length
150km
Average flow
24m³/s
Basin
880km²
Drop
275m
from 281 m to 6 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
150 km of river and 4 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 281 m
- 9 kmPilate4,227 people
- 28 kmGros Morne7,294 people
- 51 kmFond Bassin Bleu1,184 people
- 75 kmTi Port-de-Paix34,657 people
- 79 kmAtlantic Oceanat 6 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Haiti
At the mouth it carries 24 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 106 seconds. It drops from 281 m to 6 m, 1.8 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 880 km², about the size of HK.
Where to start
- Ti Port-de-PaixLargest city on its banks · 34,657 people
- Cap Haitien International Airport (CAP)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 70 km from the cityCar hire at CAP airport (Cap Haitien)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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Along the river
Les Trois Rivières: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 1Boat ramps
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Les Trois Rivières 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.
2beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
54mountains at the sourcePeakyas
1island off the mouthIslandyas
Beaches (2)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Anse du Trésor19 km away · cove29.3°C
- Anse Manchette14 km away · cove29.3°C
Mountains at the source (54)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Morne Vatin10 km away
- Morne Victoria8.2 km away
- Morne Vilaile8.7 km away
- Morne Zoulous6.0 km away
- Morne Puilboreau9.2 km away
- Morne Roche Plate14 km away
- Morne Roussel12 km away
- Morne Seize Jumbau3.5 km away
46 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
Islands off the mouth (1)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Tortuga13 km away180km²
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
Rivers nearby
Haiti240 km99 m³/s77 km awayYaque del Norte River
Dominican Republic296 km97 m³/s124 km awayDajabón RiverDominican Republic55 km8.6 m³/s118 km awayGuayamouc RiverHaiti113 km27 m³/s149 km awayToa river
Cuba131 km6.1 m³/s181 km awayOzama RiverDominican Republic148 km66 m³/s353 km awayCauto RiverCuba343 km120 m³/s461 km awayRio Cobre
Jamaica51 km14 m³/s472 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1952095) · 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 | Coastya, Peakyas, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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