River
Sigatoka River
120 km from source to mouth · Fiji.
FijiFlows into Pacific Ocean2nd longest in Fiji
In numbers
Length
120km
Average flow
53m³/s
Basin
1,497km²
Drop
448m
from 448 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
120 km of river and 1 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 448 m
- 116 kmSigatoka17,622 people
- 120 kmPacific Oceanat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Fiji
At the mouth it carries 53 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 47 seconds. It drops from 448 m to 0 m, 3.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,497 km², about the size of GP. 24,000 people live in it. Highest water: March; lowest: from July to October. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- SigatokaLargest city on its banks · 17,622 people
- Nadi International Airport (NAN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 43 km from the cityCar hire at NAN airport (Nadi)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From June to OctoberThe best months to visit
Sigatoka River, month by month
Highest water: March
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from June to October.
From about 24 m³/s in the lowest month to 94 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
Sigatoka River: the basin in numbers
1,497 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 24,000people live in the basin
- 17/km²people per km²
- 366maverage altitude of the basin
- 2,540mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 23.2°Caverage air temperature
What covers the basin
- 18% Forest
- 16% 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
Sigatoka River: what you find on the way
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Sigatoka 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.
5beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
7mountains at the sourcePeakyas
1island off the mouthIslandyas
Beaches (5)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Natadola Beach22 km away29.0°C
- Naidiri Bay16 km away · cove29.0°C
- Busa Bay20 km away · cove29.0°C
- Ibulu Bay6.1 km away · cove29.0°C
- Sovi Bay8.2 km away · cove29.0°C
Mountains at the source (7)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Mount Tomanivi8.1 km away · prominence 1,324 m1,324m
- Ndelainandarivatu11 km away
- Nandrevutuka4.8 km away
- Koroivatumbuli14 km away
- Koroiyavotha9.8 km away
- Koronambala6.5 km away
- Korondene10 km away
Islands off the mouth (1)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Robinson Crusoe Island27 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
Sigatoka River in pictures
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1496618) · 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, Peakyas, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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