River
Tanaro
276 km from source to mouth · Italy.
ItalyFlows into Po6th longest in Italy
In numbers
Length
276km
Average flow
120m³/s
Basin
8,000km²
Drop
848m
from 924 m to 76 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
276 km of river and 14 stops on the way: 6 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmLigurian Alpsat 924 m
- 63 kmCeva4,378 people
- 86 kmEllerotributary
- 86 kmCorsagliatributary
- 90 kmPesiotributary
- 91 kmCarrù3,134 people
- 123 kmCherasco3,406 people
- 124 kmStura di Demontetributary
- 148 kmAlba24,923 people
- 186 kmAsti74,348 people
- 186 kmBorboretributary
- 230 kmBelbotributary
- 243 kmAlessandria92,104 people
- 244 kmPonte Cittadella
- 252 kmBormidatributary
- 276 kmPoat 76 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in northwestern Italy
At the mouth it carries 116 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 22 seconds. It drops from 924 m to 76 m, 3.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 8,000 km², about the size of PR. 864,000 people live in it. Highest water: from November to December; lowest: August. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- AlessandriaLargest city on its banks · 92,104 people
- Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 58 km from the cityCar hire at GOA airport (Genova)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Tanaro, month by month
Highest water: from November to December
Lowest water: August. Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 93 m³/s in the lowest month to 240 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
Tanaro: the basin in numbers
8,182 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 864,000people live in the basin
- 105/km²people per km²
- 641maverage altitude of the basin
- 882mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.8°Caverage air temperature
- 7%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 47% Forest
- 31% Cropland
- 4% Pasture
- 5% 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
Tanaro: what you find on the way
- 15WeirsDiga di Verduno and 14 more
- 24LocksCanale di Isorella, Bealera del Molino, Bealera Gorei and 21 more
- 1River beachesSpiaggia dei Cristalli
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.7 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Tanaro 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.
59mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (59)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Punta Marguareis12 km away · prominence 780 m2,651m
- Monte Mongioie6.3 km away · prominence 476 m2,631m
- Cima delle Saline8.7 km away · prominence 270 m2,612m
- Cima Pian Ballaur9.2 km away · prominence 144 m2,604m
- Pizzo d'Ormea12 km away · prominence 168 m2,476m
- Monte Bertrand11 km away · prominence 383 m2,484m
- Monte Saccarello11 km away · prominence 165 m2,200m
- Bric di Conoia4.5 km away · prominence 228 m2,521m
51 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
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
Tanaro in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
PoItaly652 km1,500 m³/sTributaries (11)
Also: Bormida, Stura di Demonte, Belbo, Pesio, Ellero, Borbore, Versa, Tanarello, Corsaglia, Negrone, Cusina
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q851323) · 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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