Wadi
Oued Mellègue
130 km from source to mouth · Tunisia.
TunisiaFlows into Medjerda River2nd longest in Tunisia
In numbers
Length
130km
Average flow
13m³/s
Basin
2,579km²
Drop
529m
from 660 m to 131 m
Country
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The journey
From source to mouth
130 km of river and 3 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 660 m
- 78 kmGhardimaou19,574 people
- 90 kmWadi Maliz2,417 people
- 121 kmJendouba51,408 people
- 130 kmMedjerda Riverat 131 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Tunisia
At the mouth it carries 13 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 186 seconds. It drops from 660 m to 131 m, 4.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,579 km², about the size of LU. 394,000 people live in it. Highest water: from January to February; lowest: from June to September. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (19% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- JendoubaLargest city on its banks · 51,408 people
- Tabarka-Aïn Draham International Airport (TBJ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 54 km from the cityCar hire at TUN airport (Tunis)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From April to June and from September to OctoberThe best months to visit
Oued Mellègue, month by month
Highest water: from January to February
Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from April to June and from September to October.
From about 1.8 m³/s in the lowest month to 35 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.
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The basin
Oued Mellègue: the basin in numbers
2,579 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 394,000people live in the basin
- 153/km²people per km²
- 624maverage altitude of the basin
- 735mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 15.2°Caverage air temperature
- 1%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 25% Forest
- 80% Cropland
- 13% Pasture
- 4% 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.
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Oued Mellègue in our other atlases
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21mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (21)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Djebel Zellez6.9 km away
- Djebel Zarouria10 km away
- Koudia Touila14 km away
- Djebel Sraïa5.6 km away
- Djebel Serou10 km away
- Djebel Serser14 km away
- Koudiat er Roul14 km away
- Djebel Rhara6.3 km away
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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.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Medjerda RiverTunisia460 km29 m³/s
Algeria
ItalyWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q3358038) · 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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