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Manavgat River

93 km from source to mouth · Turkey.

TurkeyTurkeyFlows into Mediterranean Sea

Follow the riverMonth by month

SourceMouth
The river and every tributary in its basin, drawn from RiverATLAS (CC BY 4.0).

In numbers

Length

93km

Average flow

150m³/s

Basin

1,221km²

Drop

978m

from 978 m to 0 m

Country

1

The journey

From source to mouth

93 km of river and 13 stops on the way: 11 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

978 m0 m
Taurus mountainsat 978 m0 km
Oymapınar1,492 people62 km
Manavgat Waterfall4 m82 km
Mediterranean Seaat 0 m93 km
02040608093 km
  1. 0 kmTaurus mountainsat 978 m
  2. 62 kmOymapınar1,492 people
  3. 77 kmSülek1,105 people
  4. 82 kmManavgat Waterfall4 m
  5. 83 kmÇayyazı1,831 people
  6. 84 kmUlukapı3,545 people
  7. 84 kmÇeltikçi2,753 people
  8. 87 kmTürk Beleni Şelalesi
  9. 87 kmManavgat99,254 people
  10. 88 kmYukarıpazarcı6,374 people
  11. 88 kmAşağıhisar8,798 people
  12. 88 kmAşağıpazarcı8,972 people
  13. 88 kmAşağı Hisar8,832 people
  14. 89 kmEski Hisar3,917 people
  15. 93 kmMediterranean Seaat 0 m

Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.

River in Antalya, southwestern Turkey

At the mouth it carries 147 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 17 seconds. It drops from 978 m to 0 m, 11 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,221 km², about the size of MQ. 44,000 people live in it. Highest water: January; lowest: from June to September. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (42% of a year's flow).

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Where to start

  • ManavgatLargest city on its banks · 99,254 people
  • Antalya International Airport (AYT)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 58 km from the cityCar hire at AYT airport (Antalya)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
  • On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
  • Kayak and canoe1 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
  • From April to June and SeptemberThe best months to visit

Manavgat River, month by month

Highest water: January

Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from April to June and September.

55
11°234 mmJan
47
11°169 mmFeb
28
13°92 mmMar
14
16°52 mmApr
6.2
20°30 mmMay
3.0
24°10 mmJun
2.0
27°3 mmJul
1.8
27°8 mmAug
1.9
25°11 mmSep
8.5
21°81 mmOct
23
16°150 mmNov
46
12°240 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 1.8 m³/s in the lowest month to 55 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

Manavgat River: the basin in numbers

1,308 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Heavily regulatedReservoirs can hold 42% of a year's flow: dams shape its seasons.
  • 44,000people live in the basin
  • 34/km²people per km²
  • 843maverage altitude of the basin
  • 851mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 13.8°Caverage air temperature
  • 0.6%covered by lakes
  • 0.3km³held in reservoirs

What covers the basin

  • 53% Forest
  • 5% Cropland
  • 2% Pasture
  • 2% 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

Manavgat River: what you find on the way

  • 3DamsOymapinar Dam, Manavgat Dam
  • 2Weirs
  • 4WaterfallsManavgat Waterfall, Manavgat Şelalesi and 2 more
  • 1Canoe put-ins
  • 1Boat ramps
  • 1Marinas
  • 1River beachesBeach

From OpenStreetMap, within 1.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Manavgat 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
  • 1beach at the mouth or on the banksCoastya
  • 7mountains at the sourcePeakyas

Waterfalls (2)

On the river, by Cascadyas

  1. Manavgat Waterfallkm 724m
  2. Türk Beleni Şelalesikm 77

Cascadyas is coming soonOpen Cascadyas ↗

Beaches (1)

At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya

  1. Çenger Mevki, Side, Manavgat/Antalya17 km away28.9°C

Open Coastya ↗

Mountains at the source (7)

Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas

  1. Akbelen Hill7.0 km away
  2. Kızıldağ7.4 km away
  3. Karadağ1.5 km away
  4. Gidengelmez Dağı12 km away
  5. Ak Dağ9.6 km away
  6. Büyük Gözetdağı Tepe12 km away
  7. Mount Kıraç13 km away

Open Peakyas ↗

From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Manavgat River: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Manavgat River: satellite view of the mouth
The mouth10 km across

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

Manavgat River in pictures

Manavgat waterfall by tomgensler
Thomas Gensler · CC BY-SA 2.0 de
Manavgat River & Mediterranean Sea With Boat
Daniel Åhs Karlsson · CC BY-SA 3.0
07600 Çayyazı-Manavgat-Antalya, Turkey - panoramio (5)
EROL AKBULUT · CC BY 3.0
Değirmenli Köyü Manavgat - panoramio
E v Schoonhoven · CC BY 3.0

Nearby

Rivers nearby

Köprüçay RiverTurkeyTurkey183 km36 m³/s26 km awayRiver GöksuTurkeyTurkey260 km92 m³/s237 km awayPedieosCyprusCyprus100 km15 m³/s283 km awayKouris RiverCyprusCyprus38 km1.8 m³/s249 km awaySeyhan RiverTurkeyTurkey560 km130 m³/s308 km awayGialiasCyprusCyprus88 km2.6 m³/s283 km awayGreat Menderes RiverTurkeyTurkey548 km90 m³/s388 km awayCeyhan RiverTurkeyTurkey474 km230 m³/s367 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q153675) · CC0
Course, profile, basinRiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point given by Wikidata
FlowWaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Climate along the riverWorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Towns, bridges, damsWikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Along the river© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Our other atlasesCascadyas, Coastya, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST

Every source and licence is on the data sources page.

The family

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