River
North Laclo River
80 km from source to mouth · Timor Leste.
Timor LesteFlows into Wetar Strait2nd longest in Timor Leste
In numbers
Length
80km
Average flow
13m³/s
Basin
1,361km²
Drop
796m
from 800 m to 4 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
80 km of river and 1 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 800 m
- 78 kmManatutu1,924 people
- 80 kmWetar Straitat 4 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in East Timor
At the mouth it carries 13 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 194 seconds. It drops from 800 m to 4 m, 9.9 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,361 km², about the size of MQ. 55,000 people live in it. Highest water: from January to February; lowest: from July to October. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- ManatutuLargest city on its banks · 1,924 people
- Baucau Airport (BCH)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 43 km from the city
- From June to OctoberThe best months to visit
North Laclo River, month by month
Highest water: from January to February
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from June to October.
From about 3.0 m³/s in the lowest month to 26 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
North Laclo River: the basin in numbers
1,361 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 55,000people live in the basin
- 41/km²people per km²
- 775maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,777mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 22.7°Caverage air temperature
What covers the basin
- 1% Forest
- 16% Cropland
- 22% 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.
Cross-checked with our atlases
North Laclo 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.
90mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (90)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Foho Olopana13 km away1,791m
- Foho Hatulau11 km away1,604m
- Foho Hatali14 km away1,385m
- Foho Railisu12 km away1,166m
- Foho Rachelici14 km away1,131m
- Foho Apiliho12 km away975m
- Foho Raisahe13 km away891m
- Foho Hoholuli14 km away
82 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
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
North Laclo River in pictures
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q935917) · 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 | 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.
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