River
Sele
64 km from source to mouth · Italy.
ItalyFlows into Gulf of Salerno
In numbers
Length
64km
Average flow
69m³/s
Basin
3,223km²
Drop
258m
from 257 m to -1 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
64 km of river and 6 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 257 m
- 0 kmBalvano1,306 people
- 2 kmRicigliano1,191 people
- 30 kmContursi Terme1,865 people
- 30 kmTanagrotributary
- 54 kmCalore Lucanotributary
- 58 kmBivio Santa Cecilia2,138 people
- 64 kmGulf of Salernoat -1 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Italy
At the mouth it carries 69 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 36 seconds. It drops from 257 m to -1 m, 4.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,223 km². 252,000 people live in it. Highest water: from November to January; lowest: from June to September. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Bivio Santa CeciliaLargest city on its banks · 2,138 people
- Salerno Costa d'Amalfi Airport (QSR)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 13 km from the cityCar hire at NAP airport (Napoli)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Sele, month by month
Highest water: from November to January
Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 9.5 m³/s in the lowest month to 87 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
Sele: the basin in numbers
3,172 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 252,000people live in the basin
- 79/km²people per km²
- 655maverage altitude of the basin
- 712mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 12.7°Caverage air temperature
- 34%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 38% Forest
- 37% Cropland
- 2% Pasture
- 2% 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
Sele: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
- 1Locks
- 1River beachesSpiaggia Varolato
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Sele 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.
13beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
2islands off the mouthIslandyas
Beaches (13)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Spiaggia Lido Marilena10 km away26.2°C
- Spiaggia di Mercatello23 km away26.1°C
- Spiaggia Agropoli15 km away26.2°C
- Spiaggia Lido Linora10 km away26.2°C
- Spiaggia Lido Raggio Verde7.4 km away26.2°C
- Spiaggia Lido La Siesta9.3 km away26.2°C
- Spiaggia di Magazzeno16 km away26.1°C
- Spiaggia di Torre Picentina18 km away26.1°C
5 more on CoastyaOpen Coastya ↗
Islands off the mouth (2)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Licosa isle26 km away
- Scoglio Trentova15 km away
Islandyas is coming soonOpen Islandyas ↗
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
Sele in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (2)
Also: Calore Lucano, Tanagro
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q937958) · 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 | Coastya, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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