River
Musi River
500 km from source to mouth · Indonesia.
IndonesiaFlows into Bangka Strait6th longest in Indonesia
In numbers
Length
500km
Average flow
3,100m³/s
Basin
54,847km²
Drop
243m
from 243 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
500 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 243 m
- 145 kmSanga Desa33,505 people
- 155 kmRawas Rivertributary
- 268 kmDanau Calo1.2 km²
- 322 kmLematang Rivertributary
- 404 kmAmpera Bridge
- 413 kmKomering Rivertributary
- 500 kmBangka Straitat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Bengkulu and South Sumatra, Indonesia
At the mouth it carries 3,053 m³/s on average: 1.2 Olympic pools every second. It drops from 243 m to 0 m, 0.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 54,847 km², about the size of HR. 6.2 million people live in it. Highest water: from December to February and April; lowest: August. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Sanga DesaLargest city on its banks · 33,505 people
- Pendopo Airport (PDO)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 78 km from the cityCar hire in JakartaDiscover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water3 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Musi River, month by month
Highest water: from December to February and April
Lowest water: August. Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 1,500 m³/s in the lowest month to 4,800 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
Musi River: the basin in numbers
54,847 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 6.2millionpeople live in the basin
- 115/km²people per km²
- 247maverage altitude of the basin
- 2,729mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 25.7°Caverage air temperature
- 13%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 19% Forest
- 38% Cropland
- 1% Pasture
- 3% 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
Musi River: what you find on the way
- 3Ferry piersPelabuhan Boom Baru, MPS
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Musi 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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
8mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Danau Calokm 2461.2km²
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Mountains at the source (8)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Bukit Basu14 km away
- Bukit Sanggul6.6 km away
- Bukit Hulu Sulup3.3 km away
- Bukit Lumut12 km away
- Bukit Naning13 km away
- Bukit Hulusimpang14 km away
- Bukit Lalang12 km away
- Bukit Condong13 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
Musi River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (4)
Also: Ogan River, Komering River, Rawas River, Lematang River
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q39247) · 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, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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