River
Manas River
400 km from source to mouth · India.
IndiaFlows into Brahmaputra River
In numbers
Length
400km
Average flow
500m³/s
Basin
41,350km²
Drop
4,717m
from 4,749 m to 32 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
400 km of river and 6 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 4,749 m
- 0 kmNara Yumco22 km²
- 77 kmChumi Gyatse Falls
- 107 kmNuranang Falls
- 235 kmKuri Chhutributary
- 340 kmTakhlibilar Pathar6,611 people
- 390 kmAie Rivertributary
- 400 kmBrahmaputra Riverat 32 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in India
At the mouth it carries 505 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 5.0 seconds. It drops from 4,749 m to 32 m, 12 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 41,350 km², about the size of CH. 2.7 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
- Takhlibilar PatharLargest city on its banks · 6,611 people
- Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport (GAU)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 78 km from the cityCar hire at PBH airport (Paro)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- March and NovemberThe best months to visit
Manas River, month by month
Highest water: from July to August
Lowest water: from December to March. Best months to visit: March and November.
From about 46 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,400 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
Manas River: the basin in numbers
33,134 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 2.7millionpeople live in the basin
- 83/km²people per km²
- 3,185maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,181mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.7°Caverage air temperature
- 30%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 5%glaciers
- 8%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 32% Forest
- 11% Cropland
- 28% Pasture
- 3% Towns and cities
- 5% 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
Manas River: what you find on the way
- 2Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Manas 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.
2waterfalls on the riverCascadyas
1lake on its wayLakeyas
Waterfalls (2)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Chumi Gyatse Fallskm 69
- Nuranang Fallskm 96
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Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Nara Yumcokm 022km²
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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
Manas River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Brahmaputra RiverIndia2,900 km19,500 m³/sIn the same basin
India2,525 km12,000 m³/sYamunaIndia1,376 km3,500 m³/sPadma River
Bangladesh120 km32,000 m³/sGandaki RiverIndia630 km1,800 m³/sChambal RiverIndia960 km600 m³/sJamuna RiverBangladesh245 km20,100 m³/sGhaghara RiverIndia1,080 km3,300 m³/sTeesta RiverBangladesh470 km1,300 m³/sGomti RiverIndia900 km230 m³/sKosi RiverIndia729 km2,300 m³/sNearby
Rivers nearby
India320 km5,400 m³/s92 km awayTeesta RiverBangladesh470 km1,300 m³/s133 km awayKuri Chhu
Bhutan257 km150 m³/s106 km awayParo ChhuBhutan80 km32 m³/s166 km awayHa ChhuBhutan29 km17 m³/s161 km awayGangesIndia2,525 km12,000 m³/s333 km awayJamuna RiverBangladesh245 km20,100 m³/s285 km awayPadma RiverBangladesh120 km32,000 m³/s333 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2015702) · 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 | Cascadyas, Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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