River
Tensift River
270 km from source to mouth · Morocco.
MoroccoFlows into Atlantic Ocean5th longest in Morocco
In numbers
Length
270km
Average flow
61m³/s
Basin
20,000km²
Drop
1,236m
from 1,236 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
270 km of river and 3 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmHigh Atlasat 1,236 m
- 34 kmSidi Rahhal10,817 people
- 86 kmOued Tensift Bridge
- 123 kmWadi Nafīstributary
- 270 kmAtlantic Oceanat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Morocco
At the mouth it carries 61 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 41 seconds. It drops from 1,236 m to 0 m, 4.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 20,000 km², about the size of SI. 2.5 million people live in it. Highest water: from January to February; lowest: from July to October. Its dams hold back little of its water (5.0% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- Sidi RahhalLargest city on its banks · 10,817 people
- Marrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 54 km from the cityCar hire at RAK airport (Marrakesh)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From April to June and from September to OctoberThe best months to visit
Tensift River, month by month
Highest water: from January to February
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from April to June and from September to October.
From about 8.8 m³/s in the lowest month to 140 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
Tensift River: the basin in numbers
20,121 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 2.5millionpeople live in the basin
- 122/km²people per km²
- 881maverage altitude of the basin
- 375mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 16.2°Caverage air temperature
- 13%protected areas
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 3% Forest
- 38% Cropland
- 31% 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
Tensift River: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 2River beachessouiria 2 éme plage, saouiria 1 ere plage
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.0 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Tensift 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.
33mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (33)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Jebel Tissirt5.7 km away
- Jebel Tistouit10 km away
- Adrar n' Tayat8.8 km away
- Jebel Ourdat5.9 km away
- Jebel Ourgouz11 km away
- Jebel Taguergouzt11 km away
- Jebel Tamoucht10 km away
- Jebel Targska9.9 km away
25 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
Tensift River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (3)
Also: Ourika River, Wadi Nafīs, Oued Issyl
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2371903) · 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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