River
Loes River
80 km from source to mouth · Timor Leste.
Timor LesteFlows into Savu Sea1st longest in Timor Leste
In numbers
Length
80km
Average flow
44m³/s
Basin
2,191km²
Drop
344m
from 344 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
80 km of river and 1 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 344 m
- 2 kmAtambua82,196 people
- 80 kmSavu Seaat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in East Timor
At the mouth it carries 44 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 57 seconds. It drops from 344 m to 0 m, 4.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,191 km², about the size of KM. 304,000 people live in it. Highest water: from January to February; lowest: from July to October. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- AtambuaLargest city on its banks · 82,196 people
- Commander in Chief of FALINTIL, Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão, International Airport (UAI)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 48 km from the city
- From July to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Loes River, month by month
Highest water: from January to February
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from July to September.
From about 4.9 m³/s in the lowest month to 120 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
Loes River: the basin in numbers
2,578 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 304,000people live in the basin
- 118/km²people per km²
- 637maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,686mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 23.4°Caverage air temperature
- 2%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 3% Forest
- 22% Cropland
- 16% Pasture
- 7% 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
Loes River: what you find on the way
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Loes 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.
129mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (129)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Foho Bairenes12 km away
- Nuaf Railuli12 km away
- Mount Malunmutuk15 km away
- Mount Hila14 km away
- Tubu Kilaren14 km away
- Mount Gila11 km away
- Mount Mewak11 km away
- Taruik Fatunain9.7 km away
121 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
Loes River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (1)
Also: Nunura
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q662160) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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