River
Saigon River
256 km from source to mouth · Vietnam.
VietnamFlows into Dong Nai River7th longest in Vietnam
In numbers
Length
256km
Average flow
54m³/s
Basin
5,000km²
Drop
71m
from 69 m to -2 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
256 km of river and 16 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 69 m
- 112 kmDau Tieng Reservoir187 km²
- 121 kmXóm Bến Củi5,150 people
- 131 kmHồ Cần Nôm2.5 km²
- 192 kmPhu Cuong Bridge
- 193 kmThủ Dầu Một373,105 people
- 211 kmPhu Long Bridge
- 218 kmBinh Phuoc Bridge
- 226 kmBinh Loi Railway Bridge
- 226 kmBinh Loi Road Bridge
- 227 kmBình Triệu Bridge
- 227 kmBình Thạnh552,164 people
- 233 kmSaigon Bridge
- 235 kmThu Thiem Bridge
- 237 kmBa Son Bridge
- 239 kmQuận Bốn199,329 people
- 251 kmPhu My Bridge
- 256 kmDong Nai Riverat -2 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Vietnam
At the mouth it carries 54 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 46 seconds. It drops from 69 m to -2 m, 0.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 5,000 km², about the size of TT. 5.3 million people live in it. Highest water: from August to October; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Bình ThạnhLargest city on its banks · 552,164 people
- Tan Son Nhat International Airport (SGN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 6 km from the city
- On the water17 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From December to FebruaryThe best months to visit
Saigon River, month by month
Highest water: from August to October
Lowest water: from January to April. Best months to visit: from December to February.
From about 34 m³/s in the lowest month to 470 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
Saigon River: the basin in numbers
5,158 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 5.3millionpeople live in the basin
- 1,048/km²people per km²
- 43maverage altitude of the basin
- 2,125mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 26.7°Caverage air temperature
- 2%protected areas
- 3.7%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 4% Forest
- 28% Cropland
- 1% Pasture
- 21% 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
Saigon River: what you find on the way
- 11WeirsCống ngăn triều Bến Nghé, Cống ngăn triều Tân Thuận and 9 more
- 1WaterfallsTruc Springs (Suoi Truc)
- 1Boat ramps
- 14Ferry piersBến đò Thủ Dầu Một, Bến đò Sa Tân Miếu, Bến Thanh Đa and 11 more
- 2MarinasVinhomes Central Park Marina, Saigon Waterbus
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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2lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Dau Tieng Reservoirkm 82187km²
- Hồ Cần Nômkm 962.5km²
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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.
Photos
Saigon River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Dong Nai RiverVietnam586 km1,100 m³/sTributaries (1)
Also: Thi Tinh River
CambodiaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1060805) · 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 — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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