River
Rio Conchos
910 km from source to mouth · Mexico.
MexicoFlows into Rio Grande2nd longest in Mexico
In numbers
Length
910km
Average flow
57m³/s
Basin
77,000km²
Drop
1,592m
from 2,375 m to 783 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
910 km of river and 8 stops on the way: 5 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSierra Madre Occidentalat 2,375 m
- 3 kmSan Juanito10,535 people
- 453 kmSanta Rosalía de Camargo40,221 people
- 456 kmFlorido Rivertributary
- 508 kmSaucillo11,004 people
- 567 kmSan Pedro Rivertributary
- 601 kmChuviscar Rivertributary
- 858 kmOjinaga28,040 people
- 876 kmManuel Ojinaga22,744 people
- 910 kmRio Grandeat 783 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Mexico
At the mouth it carries 57 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 43 seconds. It drops from 2,375 m to 783 m, 1.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 77,000 km², about the size of PA. 1.5 million people live in it. Highest water: September; lowest: from February to May. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 293% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- Santa Rosalía de CamargoLargest city on its banks · 40,221 people
- General Roberto Fierro Villalobos International Airport (CUU)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 138 km from the cityCar hire at CUU airport (Chihuahua)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water3 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From March to May and from October to NovemberThe best months to visit
Rio Conchos, month by month
Highest water: September
Lowest water: from February to May. Best months to visit: from March to May and from October to November.
From about 9.1 m³/s in the lowest month to 210 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
Rio Conchos: the basin in numbers
66,775 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.5millionpeople live in the basin
- 22/km²people per km²
- 1,678maverage altitude of the basin
- 442mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 16.9°Caverage air temperature
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 5.3km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 17% Forest
- 7% Cropland
- 54% 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
Rio Conchos: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
- 1WaterfallsCascada Laborcita
- 2Boat ramps
- 1Ferry piersClub Colibrí
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Rio Conchos 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
- Cerro Blanco14 km away
- Cerro Mesa Quemada12 km away
- Mesa del Cuervo14 km away
- Mesa de La Mujer13 km away
- Cerro Nechupiachi7.9 km away
- Cerro El Retiro5.3 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
Rio Conchos in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Rio Grande
United States3,051 km85 m³/sTributaries (4)
Also: Florido River, Chuviscar River, San Pedro River, Balleza River
In the same basin
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1970278) · 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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