River
Ortoire River
42 km from source to mouth · Trinidad and Tobago.
Trinidad and Tobago
In numbers
Length
42km
Average flow
11m³/s
Basin
448km²
Drop
40m
from 40 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
42 km of river and 0 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 40 m
- 42 kmMouthat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Trinidad and Tobago
At the mouth it carries 11 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 223 seconds. It drops from 40 m to 0 m, 1.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 448 km².
Where to start
- Rio ClaroLargest city on its banks · 35,650 people
- Piarco International Airport (POS)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 37 km from the cityCar hire at POS airport (Port of Spain)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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7mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (7)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Saddle Hills12 km away
- Nariva Hill9.0 km away
- Montserrat Hills14 km away
- Dunmore Hill11 km away
- Centre Hill9.6 km away
- Cats Hill14 km away
- Long Mountain12 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.
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GuyanaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q7105077) · 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 |
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