River
Mudan River
700 km from source to mouth · China.
ChinaFlows into Songhua River
In numbers
Length
700km
Average flow
180m³/s
Basin
40,000km²
Drop
492m
from 580 m to 88 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
700 km of river and 8 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 580 m
- 52 kmDunhua148,844 people
- 93 kmXiwaizi Shuiku4.8 km²
- 240 kmJingpo Lake73 km²
- 242 kmDiaoshuilou Waterfall12 m
- 391 kmMudanjiang665,915 people
- 422 kmChaihe67,963 people
- 596 kmWusihun Hetributary
- 679 kmYilan71,180 people
- 700 kmSonghua Riverat 88 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Heilongjiang, China
At the mouth it carries 181 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 14 seconds. It drops from 580 m to 88 m, 0.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 40,000 km², about the size of CH. 2.8 million people live in it. Highest water: August; lowest: from December to March. Its dams hold back little of its water (2.2% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- MudanjiangLargest city on its banks · 665,915 people
- Mudanjiang Hailang International Airport (MDG)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 5 km from the city
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to June and SeptemberThe best months to visit
Mudan River, month by month
Highest water: August
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Best months to visit: from May to June and September.
From about 36 m³/s in the lowest month to 430 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
Mudan River: the basin in numbers
37,177 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 2.8millionpeople live in the basin
- 77/km²people per km²
- 543maverage altitude of the basin
- 619mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 2.3°Caverage air temperature
- 10%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 61% Forest
- 18% Cropland
- 6% 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
Mudan River: what you find on the way
- 4Weirs
- 1Locks
- 1WaterfallsDiaoshuilou Waterfall
- 2MarinasJingpo Villa Wharf
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Mudan 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.
1waterfall on the riverCascadyas
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Diaoshuilou Waterfallkm 21912m
Cascadyas is coming soonOpen Cascadyas ↗
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Xiwaizi Shuikukm 844.8km²
- Jingpo Lakekm 217 · 62 m deep73km²
Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗
Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Renyi Dingzi10 km away
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
Mudan River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Songhua RiverChina1,434 km2,500 m³/sTributaries (1)
Also: Wusihun He
In the same basin
Russia
North KoreaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q618668) · 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, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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