River
Salado River
640 km from source to mouth · Argentina.
ArgentinaFlows into Río de la Plata8th longest in Argentina
In numbers
Length
640km
Average flow
80m³/s
Basin
170,000km²
Drop
86m
from 86 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
640 km of river and 13 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 86 m
- 19 kmLaguna del Chañar9.1 km²
- 77 kmLaguna Mar Chiquita43 km²
- 102 kmLaguna de Gómez62 km²
- 112 kmJunín87,509 people
- 120 kmLaguna El Carpincho3.2 km²
- 148 kmLaguna de Rocha3.9 km²
- 306 kmLaguna de Britos0.5 km²
- 320 kmLaguna Salada1.6 km²
- 370 kmLaguna Flores Chica5.3 km²
- 377 kmLaguna Las Flores Grande0.6 km²
- 440 kmGeneral Belgrano19,056 people
- 500 kmLaguna Manantiales0.7 km²
- 532 kmLaguna San Miguel0.5 km²
- 640 kmRío de la Plataat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River en Buenos Aires, Argentina
At the mouth it carries 80 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 31 seconds. It drops from 86 m to 0 m, 0.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 170,000 km², about the size of UY. 894,000 people live in it. Highest water: from March to May and December. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- JunínLargest city on its banks · 87,509 people
- Rosario Islas Malvinas International Airport (ROS)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 188 km from the cityCar hire at ROS airport (Rosario)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- February, April and from October to DecemberThe best months to visit
Salado River, month by month
Highest water: from March to May and December
Best months to visit: February, April and from October to December.
From about 370 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,100 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
Salado River: the basin in numbers
86,110 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 894,000people live in the basin
- 10/km²people per km²
- 93maverage altitude of the basin
- 927mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 15.1°Caverage air temperature
- 0.6%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 2% Forest
- 29% Cropland
- 43% Pasture
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
Salado River: what you find on the way
- 4WeirsDefensa de la Ciudad "Ricardo Callegari" Compuerta 1, Azud nivelador and 2 more
- 1Waterfalls
- 1River beachesBalneario La Isleña
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Salado 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.
11lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (11)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Laguna del Chañarkm 189.1km²
- Laguna Mar Chiquitakm 7443km²
- Laguna de Gómezkm 9862km²
- Laguna El Carpinchokm 1153.2km²
- Laguna de Rochakm 1423.9km²
- Laguna Flores Chicakm 3565.3km²
- Laguna Las Flores Grandekm 3630.6km²
- Laguna Manantialeskm 4810.7km²
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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
Salado River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Río de la Plata
Uruguay290 km22,000 m³/sTributaries (1)
Also: Quinto River
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q270655) · 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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