River
Osum
161 km from source to mouth · Albania.
AlbaniaFlows into Seman7th longest in Albania
In numbers
Length
161km
Average flow
40m³/s
Basin
2,150km²
Drop
827m
from 851 m to 24 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
161 km of river and 15 stops on the way: 14 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmVithkuqat 851 m
- 77 kmQendër Skrapar2,545 people
- 77 kmÇorovodë3,918 people
- 98 kmBogovë1,098 people
- 107 kmPoliçan4,318 people
- 116 kmVërtop4,919 people
- 131 kmUznovë2,569 people
- 137 kmBerat40,665 people
- 137 kmGorica Bridge
- 138 kmVelabisht8,453 people
- 141 kmStarovë1,043 people
- 142 kmDushnik1,282 people
- 145 kmOtllak9,218 people
- 148 kmMoravë1,459 people
- 152 kmUra Vajgurore7,232 people
- 156 kmTapi1,780 people
- 161 kmSemanat 24 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Albania
At the mouth it carries 40 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 62 seconds. It drops from 851 m to 24 m, 5.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,150 km², about the size of KM. 102,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to January; lowest: from June to September. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- BeratLargest city on its banks · 40,665 people
- Tirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 81 km from the cityCar hire at TIA airport (Rinas)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Osum, month by month
Highest water: from December to January
Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 7.4 m³/s in the lowest month to 73 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
Osum: the basin in numbers
2,058 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 102,000people live in the basin
- 49/km²people per km²
- 845maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,057mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.9°Caverage air temperature
- 0.1%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 7% Forest
- 29% Cropland
- 10% Pasture
- 1% 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
Osum: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
- 3Waterfalls
- 7River beachesPlazhi "Vau i Cerenishtit", Plazhi "Vau", Plazhi "Pllakat" and 4 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Osum 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.
26mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (26)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Ostrovicë12 km away2,157m
- Cuka e Faqekuqit6.6 km away2,334m
- Cuka e Frengut7.5 km away1,937m
- Ostrovice10 km away1,896m
- Mashkullor5.7 km away1,840m
- Rungajë9.2 km away1,613m
- Mali i Qelqezes10 km away1,622m
- Mali i Kurores15 km away1,570m
18 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
Osum in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
SemanAlbania85 km100 m³/sIn the same basin
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q83840) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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