In numbers
Length
75km
Average flow
60m³/s
Basin
2,859km²
Drop
51m
from 62 m to 11 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
75 km of river and 12 stops on the way: 11 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmLake Gardaat 62 m
- 4 kmLake Garda355 km²
- 5 kmPeschiera del Garda7,733 people
- 6 kmCavalcaselle2,557 people
- 7 kmPonti sul Mincio1,219 people
- 9 kmSalionze1,288 people
- 12 kmMonzambano2,986 people
- 17 kmValeggio sul Mincio8,641 people
- 33 kmGoito5,538 people
- 52 kmMantua39,260 people
- 53 kmLunetta-Frassino4,138 people
- 62 kmSan Biagio1,762 people
- 65 kmBagnolo San Vito1,991 people
- 75 kmPoat 11 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Northern Italy
At the mouth it carries 60 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 42 seconds. It drops from 62 m to 11 m, 0.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,859 km², about the size of LU. 401,000 people live in it. Highest water: from November to December. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- MantuaLargest city on its banks · 39,260 people
- Verona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 27 km from the cityCar hire at VRN airport (Caselle)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water35 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Mincio, month by month
Highest water: from November to December
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 31 m³/s in the lowest month to 100 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
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The basin
Mincio: the basin in numbers
2,977 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 401,000people live in the basin
- 154/km²people per km²
- 739maverage altitude of the basin
- 825mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 9.3°Caverage air temperature
- 18%protected areas
- 12.4%covered by lakes
- 2%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 42% Forest
- 39% Cropland
- 4% Pasture
- 8% 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
Mincio: what you find on the way
- 22WeirsDiversivo MORTALE del Fiume Mincio, Travata and 20 more
- 7LocksLock San Leone and 6 more
- 4Waterfalls
- 13Boat rampsPorto Bergamini, Porto Cappuccini and 11 more
- 4Ferry piersPeschiera del Garda, Navigarda, Corte Mincio and 1 more
- 14MarinasPorto Fornaci, Porto Bergamini, Porto Cappuccini and 11 more
- 4River beachesBracco Baldo Beach, Gasparina Village, Lido ai Pioppi and 1 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Mincio 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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lake Gardakm 4 · 346 m deep355km²
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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
Mincio in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Po
Italy652 km1,500 m³/sWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q936688) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth 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 | Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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