River
Teles Pires River
1,370 km from source to mouth · Brazil.
BrazilFlows into Tapajós River
In numbers
Length
1,370km
Average flow
4,000m³/s
Basin
141,442km²
Drop
344m
from 444 m to 100 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
1,370 km of river and 10 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 444 m
- 25 kmCachoeira das Garças
- 199 kmCachoeira do Carneiro
- 487 kmVerde Rivertributary
- 492 kmCachoeira do Suplício
- 495 kmCachoeira Curupi
- 574 kmCachoeira Aquibi
- 840 kmCachoeira Doce Ilusão
- 872 kmCristalino Rivertributary
- 975 kmCachoeira Villeroy
- 982 kmTeles Pires Dam
- 1,370 kmTapajós Riverat 100 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Mato Grosso & Pará, Brazil
At the mouth it carries 3,978 m³/s on average: 1.6 Olympic pools every second. It drops from 444 m to 100 m, 0.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 141,442 km², about the size of NP. 515,000 people live in it. Highest water: from February to 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
- JacareacangaLargest city on its banks · 24,042 people
- On the water22 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to AugustThe best months to visit
Teles Pires River, month by month
Highest water: from February to March
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from May to August.
From about 1,200 m³/s in the lowest month to 8,000 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
Teles Pires River: the basin in numbers
141,987 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 515,000people live in the basin
- 4/km²people per km²
- 340maverage altitude of the basin
- 2,140mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 25.1°Caverage air temperature
- 14%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 60% Forest
- 4% Cropland
- 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
Teles Pires River: what you find on the way
- 22Ferry piers
- 1River beachesPrainha Água Azul
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Teles Pires 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.
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Waterfalls (7)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Cachoeira das Garçaskm 26
- Cachoeira do Carneirokm 205
- Cachoeira do Suplíciokm 507
- Cachoeira Curupikm 510
- Cachoeira Aquibikm 591
- Cachoeira Doce Ilusãokm 865
- Cachoeira Villeroykm 1,005
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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
Teles Pires River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Tapajós RiverBrazil1,930 km13,000 m³/sTributaries (9)
Also: Cristalino River, Apiacá River, Peixoto de Azevedo River, Verde River, Cururuaçu River, Parado River, Paranaíta River, São Benedito River, Rio Cristalino
In the same basin
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Peru1,737 km16,700 m³/sUcayali RiverPeru1,460 km12,600 m³/sJapurá RiverBrazil2,820 km13,900 m³/sXingu RiverBrazil1,640 km9,700 m³/sMamoré RiverBrazil1,930 km11,600 m³/sJuruá RiverBrazil3,100 km4,800 m³/sPutumayo RiverBrazil1,610 km7,000 m³/sWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q745263) · 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 | Cascadyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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