Stream
Oued Merguellil
96 km from source to mouth · Tunisia.
Tunisia3rd longest in Tunisia
In numbers
Length
96km
Average flow
1.1m³/s
Basin
1,535km²
Drop
580m
from 664 m to 84 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
96 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 664 m
- 50 kmHaffouz8,472 people
- 96 kmMouthat 84 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Watercourse in Tunisia
At the mouth it carries 1.1 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 2,330 seconds. It drops from 664 m to 84 m, 6.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,535 km², about the size of GP. 86,000 people live in it. Highest water: from January to March; lowest: from June to August. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 325% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- HaffouzLargest city on its banks · 8,472 people
- Enfidha - Hammamet International Airport (NBE)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 85 km from the cityCar hire at MIR airport (Monastir)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From April to June, September and NovemberThe best months to visit
Oued Merguellil, month by month
Highest water: from January to March
Lowest water: from June to August. Best months to visit: from April to June, September and November.
From about 0.2 m³/s in the lowest month to 3.5 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 Merguellil: the basin in numbers
1,355 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 86,000people live in the basin
- 63/km²people per km²
- 482maverage altitude of the basin
- 355mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 16.8°Caverage air temperature
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 1% Forest
- 30% Cropland
- 51% 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
Oued Merguellil: what you find on the way
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Oued Merguellil 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.
6mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (6)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Harrig Belloune2.9 km away
- Jabal al Bukrah14 km away
- Jebel es Sghira6.7 km away
- Jebel Barbrou9.8 km away
- Jebel Kesra9.1 km away
- Koudiat el Feddem9.8 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
Oued Merguellil in pictures
Algeria
ItalyWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q3358040) · 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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