River
Tartar
184 km from source to mouth · Azerbaijan.
AzerbaijanFlows into Kura River6th longest in Azerbaijan
In numbers
Length
184km
Average flow
23m³/s
Basin
2,650km²
Drop
2,084m
from 2,093 m to 9 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
184 km of river and 8 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmKarabakh Plateauat 2,093 m
- 26 kmKalbajar450 people
- 54 kmTutquntributary
- 59 kmDadivank bridge
- 102 kmSarsang Reservoir3.2 km²
- 113 kmAghdara8,325 people
- 122 kmMataghisi Jrambar0.3 km²
- 142 kmTartar12,563 people
- 162 kmBarda38,500 people
- 184 kmKura Riverat 9 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Azerbaijan
At the mouth it carries 23 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 109 seconds. It drops from 2,093 m to 9 m, 11 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,650 km², about the size of LU. 116,000 people live in it. Highest water: from May to June; lowest: January and from August to September. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- BardaLargest city on its banks · 38,500 people
- Gabala International Airport (GBB)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 70 km from the cityCar hire at GBB airport (Gabala)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Tartar, month by month
Highest water: from May to June
Lowest water: January and from August to September. Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 0.7 m³/s in the lowest month to 51 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
Tartar: the basin in numbers
2,675 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 116,000people live in the basin
- 43/km²people per km²
- 1,848maverage altitude of the basin
- 571mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 6.6°Caverage air temperature
- 0.1%covered by lakes
- 1%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 18% Forest
- 11% Cropland
- 26% 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
Tartar: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Tartar 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.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
12mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Sarsang Reservoirkm 923.2km²
- Mataghisi Jrambarkm 1100.3km²
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Mountains at the source (12)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Dali-Dagh5.5 km away3,632m
- Tsarasar12 km away3,423m
- Small Tsarasar12 km away3,424m
- Gora Aychingly11 km away3,327m
- Gora Sarymoaglydag12 km away3,344m
- Qalınqaya Dağı9.4 km away3,335m
- Jermasar Lerr4.2 km away3,081m
- Ark'ayasar Lerr5.4 km away3,075m
4 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
Tartar in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Kura RiverAzerbaijan1,360 km440 m³/sTributaries (4)
Also: Levçay, Turağayçay, Tutqun, Zarçay
In the same basin
Azerbaijan1,072 km280 m³/sAlazaniAzerbaijan351 km98 m³/sHrazdan River
Armenia141 km18 m³/sAkhurian River
Turkey186 km270 m³/sIori RiverAzerbaijan320 km120 m³/sDebed
Georgia178 km30 m³/sVorotan RiverAzerbaijan178 km22 m³/sAragvi RiverGeorgia112 km33 m³/sArpa RiverAzerbaijan128 km21 m³/sKhrami RiverAzerbaijan201 km51 m³/sNearby
Rivers nearby
Azerbaijan351 km98 m³/s78 km awayAras RiverAzerbaijan1,072 km280 m³/s113 km awayIori RiverAzerbaijan320 km120 m³/s92 km awayVorotan RiverAzerbaijan178 km22 m³/s147 km awayHakari RiverAzerbaijan170 km16 m³/s150 km awayAghstevAzerbaijan133 km8.2 m³/s177 km awayKhrami RiverAzerbaijan201 km51 m³/s204 km awayDebedGeorgia178 km30 m³/s223 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q737240) · 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, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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