River
Tagliamento
172 km from source to mouth · Italy.
ItalyFlows into Adriatic Sea
In numbers
Length
172km
Average flow
92m³/s
Basin
2,916km²
Drop
696m
from 693 m to -3 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
172 km of river and 9 stops on the way: 5 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 693 m
- 34 kmTorrente Deganotributary
- 45 kmTolmezzo8,078 people
- 58 kmFellatributary
- 69 kmGemona11,141 people
- 119 kmPonte della Delizia (bridge)
- 149 kmSan Michele al Tagliamento11,393 people
- 150 kmLatisana8,896 people
- 168 kmValle Grande (lanaw)2.0 km²
- 171 kmLignano Sabbiadoro6,842 people
- 172 kmAdriatic Seaat -3 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 92 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 27 seconds. It drops from 693 m to -3 m, 4.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,916 km², about the size of LU. 170,000 people live in it. Highest water: from November to December. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- San Michele al TagliamentoLargest city on its banks · 11,393 people
- Trieste Airport (TRS)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 37 km from the cityCar hire at TRS airport (Ronchi dei Legionari/Trieste)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water14 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Tagliamento, month by month
Highest water: from November to December
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 48 m³/s in the lowest month to 180 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
Tagliamento: the basin in numbers
2,938 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 170,000people live in the basin
- 59/km²people per km²
- 856maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,209mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.9°Caverage air temperature
- 4%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 65% Forest
- 27% Cropland
- 9% Pasture
- 3% 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
Tagliamento: what you find on the way
- 99Weirssbarramento Rio Stua, sbarramento Rio Forchiar and 97 more
- 7LocksCanale di Bevazzana (Idrovia Litoranea Veneta) and 6 more
- 18WaterfallsCascata Grasia, Cascata Plera, Cascata Radime and 15 more
- 2Boat ramps
- 2Ferry piersX-River Lignano, X-River Bibione
- 8MarinasMarina Resort Punta Gabbiani, Marina Aprilia Marittima, Marina Capo Nord and 5 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Tagliamento 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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
11beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
61mountains at the sourcePeakyas
1island off the mouthIslandyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Valle Grande (lanaw)km 1472.0km²
Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗
Beaches (11)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Spiaggia di Bibione3.9 km away25.6°C
- Spiaggia di Lignano Pineta2.3 km away25.6°C
- Spiaggia di Lignano Sabbiadoro4.1 km away25.6°C
- Spiaggia di Bibione Pineda7.3 km away25.6°C
- Spiaggia di Caorle18 km away25.6°C
- Spiaggia di Levante17 km away25.6°C
- Spiaggia di Porto Santa Margherita20 km away25.6°C
- Spiaggia Lido di Fido24 km away25.5°C
3 more on CoastyaOpen Coastya ↗
Mountains at the source (61)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Cima dei Preti14 km away · prominence 1,417 m2,706m
- Monte Terza Grande12 km away · prominence 1,277 m2,586m
- Monte Cridola3.5 km away2,581m
- Monte Bìvera9.3 km away · prominence 696 m2,474m
- Monte Brentoni7.6 km away2,545m
- Croda Montanaia5.7 km away · prominence 506 m2,548m
- Monte Pramaggiore11 km away · prominence 548 m2,478m
- Cresta di Enghe12 km away2,414m
53 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
Islands off the mouth (1)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Barbana26 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
Tagliamento in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (4)
Also: Fella, Torrente Degano, Arzino, But
Nearby
Rivers nearby
SloveniaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q747929) · 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, Coastya, Peakyas, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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