River
Sittaung River
560 km from source to mouth · Myanmar.
MyanmarFlows into Andaman Sea4th longest in Myanmar
In numbers
Length
560km
Average flow
1,200m³/s
Basin
34,000km²
Drop
576m
from 577 m to 1 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
560 km of river and 3 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 577 m
- 276 kmTaungoo106,945 people
- 463 kmShwegyin24,579 people
- 526 kmSittaung Bridge
- 560 kmAndaman Seaat 1 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Myanmar
At the mouth it carries 1,239 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 2.0 seconds. It drops from 577 m to 1 m, 1.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 34,000 km², about the size of MD. 4.7 million people live in it. Highest water: from August to September; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- TaungooLargest city on its banks · 106,945 people
- Nay Pyi Taw International Airport (NYT)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 80 km from the cityCar hire at CNX airport (Chiang Mai)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water14 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From November to FebruaryThe best months to visit
Sittaung River, month by month
Highest water: from August to September
Lowest water: from January to April. Best months to visit: from November to February.
From about 140 m³/s in the lowest month to 3,600 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
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The basin
Sittaung River: the basin in numbers
34,067 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 4.7millionpeople live in the basin
- 139/km²people per km²
- 338maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,942mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 25.7°Caverage air temperature
- 5%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 31% Forest
- 23% Cropland
- 1% Pasture
- 4% 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
Sittaung River: what you find on the way
- 11Weirs
- 1WaterfallsNam Mon Falls
- 14Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Sittaung 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.
5mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (5)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Ogwe Taung7.6 km away1,278m
- Mindale Taung13 km away887m
- Sin Taung13 km away
- Kala Taung5.1 km away
- Daung-in Taung11 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.
Thailand
LaosWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1075555) · 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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