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Marshyangdi

150 km from source to mouth · Nepal.

NepalNepalFlows into Trishuli River2nd longest in Nepal

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

In numbers

Length

150km

Average flow

220m³/s

Basin

3,850km²

Drop

3,855m

from 4,106 m to 251 m

Country

1

The journey

From source to mouth

150 km of river and 1 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

4,106 m251 m
Sourceat 4,106 m0 km
Besisahar5,427 people92 km
Trishuli Riverat 251 m150 km
050100150 km
  1. 0 kmSourceat 4,106 m
  2. 92 kmBesisahar5,427 people
  3. 150 kmTrishuli Riverat 251 m

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

Right tributary of Trishuli River in Nepal

At the mouth it carries 225 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 11 seconds. It drops from 4,106 m to 251 m, 26 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,850 km², about the size of CV. 337,000 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.

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Where to start

Marshyangdi, month by month

Highest water: from July to August

Lowest water: from December to March. Best months to visit: from March to April and November.

26
10°20 mmJan
29
12°20 mmFeb
41
16°42 mmMar
70
20°77 mmApr
180
22°181 mmMay
450
22°385 mmJun
750
22°539 mmJul
820
22°486 mmAug
600
21°280 mmSep
270
19°84 mmOct
87
14°8 mmNov
28
11°8 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 26 m³/s in the lowest month to 820 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

Marshyangdi: the basin in numbers

4,804 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Free-flowingDams upstream can hold only 0.0% of a year's flow: the river still keeps its natural rhythm.
  • 337,000people live in the basin
  • 70/km²people per km²
  • 3,359maverage altitude of the basin
  • 1,134mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 7.2°Caverage air temperature
  • 48%protected areas
  • 0.1%covered by lakes
  • 15%glaciers
  • 26%permafrost

What covers the basin

  • 37% Forest
  • 8% Cropland
  • 1% Pasture
  • 3% Towns and cities
  • 15% 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

Marshyangdi: what you find on the way

  • 8DamsManang Microhydro at Marshyangdi, Upper Marsyangdi Dam, Middle Marshyandi Hydropower Dam and 5 more
  • 3Weirs
  • 48WaterfallsHayenga Waterfall, Spry waterfall, Om Yogi waterfall and 45 more

From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Marshyangdi 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.

  • 19mountains at the sourcePeakyas

Mountains at the source (19)

Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas

  1. Annapurna I10 km away · prominence 2,984 m8,091m
  2. Annapurna III14 km away · prominence 703 m7,555m
  3. Gangapurna11 km away · prominence 563 m7,455m
  4. Tilicho Peak7.1 km away · prominence 734 m7,134m
  5. Nilgiri Himal13 km away7,061m
  6. Annapurna I Middle8.9 km away · prominence 73 m8,013m
  7. Annapurna I East7.5 km away · prominence 60 m7,980m
  8. Varaha Shikhar12 km away · prominence 267 m7,647m

11 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗

From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Marshyangdi: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Marshyangdi: 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

Marshyangdi in pictures

Marsyangdi valley near Pisang (4518299825)
Greg Willis from Denver, CO, usa · CC BY-SA 2.0
Marsyangdi River, Nepal-WLV-2068
Bijay Chaurasia · CC BY-SA 4.0
Confluence of Marsyangdi (left) and Trisuli Rivers at Mugling, Nepal
Sundar1 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Marshyangdi river near Bahundanda
Dmitry A. Mottl · CC BY-SA 3.0

Tributaries

Where it flows, and what flows into it

It flows into

Trishuli RiverNepalNepal163 km1,000 m³/s

In the same basin

GangesIndiaIndia2,525 km12,000 m³/sBrahmaputra RiverIndiaIndia2,900 km19,500 m³/sYamunaIndiaIndia1,376 km3,500 m³/sPadma RiverBangladeshBangladesh120 km32,000 m³/sGandaki RiverIndiaIndia630 km1,800 m³/sChambal RiverIndiaIndia960 km600 m³/sJamuna RiverBangladeshBangladesh245 km20,100 m³/sGhaghara RiverIndiaIndia1,080 km3,300 m³/sTeesta RiverBangladeshBangladesh470 km1,300 m³/sGomti RiverIndiaIndia900 km230 m³/s

Nearby

Rivers nearby

West Rapti RiverIndiaIndia600 km580 m³/s195 km awayGhaghara RiverIndiaIndia1,080 km3,300 m³/s235 km awayGandaki RiverIndiaIndia630 km1,800 m³/s254 km awayDudh KoshiNepalNepal138 km180 m³/s201 km awaySon RiverIndiaIndia780 km1,200 m³/s241 km awayGomti RiverIndiaIndia900 km230 m³/s298 km awayArun RiverChinaChina530 km1,300 m³/s277 km awayYamunaIndiaIndia1,376 km3,500 m³/s379 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q3389077) · CC0
Course, profile, basinRiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth 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 atlasesPeakyas — 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.

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