River
Teshio River
256 km from source to mouth · Japan.
JapanFlows into Sea of Japan4th longest in Japan
In numbers
Length
256km
Average flow
160m³/s
Basin
5,590km²
Drop
429m
from 429 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
256 km of river and 4 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 429 m
- 57 kmShibetsu17,858 people
- 89 kmNayoro27,282 people
- 118 kmBifuka4,112 people
- 194 kmNakagawa1,442 people
- 256 kmSea of Japanat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Japan
At the mouth it carries 155 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 16 seconds. It drops from 429 m to 0 m, 1.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 5,590 km², about the size of BN. 83,000 people live in it. Highest water: from April to June; lowest: from January to March. Its dams hold back little of its water (2.5% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- NayoroLargest city on its banks · 27,282 people
- Monbetsu Airport (MBE)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 75 km from the cityCar hire at AKJ airport (Higashikagura)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Teshio River, month by month
Highest water: from April to June
Lowest water: from January to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from January to February. Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 22 m³/s in the lowest month to 600 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
Teshio River: the basin in numbers
5,566 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 83,000people live in the basin
- 15/km²people per km²
- 272maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,230mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 5.1°Caverage air temperature
- 7%protected areas
- 0.3%covered by lakes
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 82% Forest
- 2% Cropland
- 7% 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
Teshio River: what you find on the way
- 7Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Teshio River in our other atlases
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6mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (6)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Mount Teshio3.0 km away1,558m
- Mount Shokotsu5.7 km away · prominence 250 m1,345m
- Teshio Fuji0.4 km away1,450m
- Mount Okito10 km away1,176m
- Temmaku-yama12 km away
- Umase-yama4.3 km away
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.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (2)
Also: Sarobetsu River, Nayoro River
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1184865) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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