River
Qvirila River
140 km from source to mouth · Georgia.
GeorgiaFlows into Rioni6th longest in Georgia
In numbers
Length
140km
Average flow
90m³/s
Basin
3,630km²
Drop
897m
from 986 m to 89 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
140 km of river and 6 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmRacha Rangeat 986 m
- 20 kmOni2,480 people
- 48 kmAmbrolauri1,952 people
- 119 kmGumati Reservoir0.7 km²
- 127 kmKutaisi135,201 people
- 140 kmTskaltsitela Rivertributary
- 140 kmVartsikhe Reservoir1.2 km²
- 140 kmRioniat 89 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Georgia
At the mouth it carries 90 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 28 seconds. It drops from 986 m to 89 m, 6.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,630 km², about the size of CV. 163,000 people live in it. Highest water: February and December. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- KutaisiLargest city on its banks · 135,201 people
- David the Builder Kutaisi International Airport (KUT)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 20 km from the cityCar hire at KUT airport (Kopitnari)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- Kayak and canoe1 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Qvirila River, month by month
Highest water: February and December
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 35 m³/s in the lowest month to 300 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
Qvirila River: the basin in numbers
3,547 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 163,000people live in the basin
- 46/km²people per km²
- 1,616maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,031mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 4.9°Caverage air temperature
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 1%glaciers
- 5%permafrost
- 0.0km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 68% Forest
- 3% Cropland
- 30% Pasture
- 1% Towns and cities
- 1% Ice
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
Qvirila River: what you find on the way
- 5Weirs
- 10WaterfallsWaterfall of Love, Patardzli waterfall, Alpana Waterfall and 7 more
- 1RapidsMukhli
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Qvirila 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.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
7mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Gumati Reservoirkm 119 · 24 m deep0.7km²
- Vartsikhe Reservoirkm 1401.2km²
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Mountains at the source (7)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Saukhokh14 km away3,711m
- Gormagali11 km away3,187m
- Syrxlæbyrdtæ3.4 km away2,862m
- Lebeuris Mta3.4 km away2,862m
- Daghverila7.8 km away2,723m
- Pepeleti13 km away2,083m
- Gora Talara11 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
Qvirila River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
RioniGeorgia327 km400 m³/sTributaries (7)
Also: Dzirula, Jruchula, Gebura, Lukhuta, Katskhura, Tskaltsitela River, Chikhura
In the same basin
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Georgia184 km90 m³/s36 km awayEnguriGeorgia213 km40 m³/s100 km awayÇoruhGeorgia438 km280 m³/s114 km awayKodori RiverGeorgia84 km140 m³/s148 km awayAragvi RiverGeorgia112 km33 m³/s169 km awayKsaniGeorgia84 km15 m³/s159 km awayDebedGeorgia178 km30 m³/s205 km awayKhrami River
Azerbaijan201 km51 m³/s223 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2604915) · 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 | Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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