River
Teslin River
632 km from source to mouth · Canada.
CanadaFlows into Yukon River
In numbers
Length
632km
Average flow
300m³/s
Basin
35,500km²
Drop
818m
from 1,410 m to 592 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
632 km of river and 9 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,410 m
- 130 kmAtlin Lake589 km²
- 298 kmTagish Lake352 km²
- 359 kmMarsh Lake95 km²
- 408 kmChadburn Lake1.8 km²
- 412 kmChadden Lake0.6 km²
- 416 kmEar Lake0.3 km²
- 419 kmSchwatka Lake1.4 km²
- 422 kmWhitehorse28,201 people
- 546 kmLake Laberge198 km²
- 632 kmYukon Riverat 592 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Watercourse in British Columbia and Yukon in Canada
At the mouth it carries 300 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 8.3 seconds. It drops from 1,410 m to 592 m, 1.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 35,500 km², about the size of TW. 28,000 people live in it. Highest water, with the snowmelt: from May to July; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- WhitehorseLargest city on its banks · 28,201 people
- Whitehorse / Erik Nielsen International Airport (YXY)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 1 km from the cityCar hire in WhitehorseDiscover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water19 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- JulyThe best months to visit
Teslin River, month by month
Highest water: from May to July
Lowest water: from January to April. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: July.
From about 150 m³/s in the lowest month to 730 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
Teslin River: the basin in numbers
32,233 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 28,000people live in the basin
- 1/km²people per km²
- 1,150maverage altitude of the basin
- 365mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -2.9°Caverage air temperature
- 18%protected areas
- 6.4%covered by lakes
- 4%glaciers
- 31%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 22% Forest
- 4% Ice
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
Teslin River: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
- 1WaterfallsRacine Falls
- 16Boat rampsSix mile river resort lauch, Tagish Lake Campground boat launch, Marsh Lake Marina Boat launch and 13 more
- 2MarinasBrewery Bay Marina, Marsh Lake Marina
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Teslin 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.
8lakes on its wayLakeyas
2mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (8)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Atlin Lakekm 85 · 283 m deep589km²
- Tagish Lakekm 194352km²
- Marsh Lakekm 23395km²
- Chadburn Lakekm 2651.8km²
- Chadden Lakekm 2680.6km²
- Ear Lakekm 2710.3km²
- Schwatka Lakekm 2721.4km²
- Lake Labergekm 355198km²
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Mountains at the source (2)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Mount Nesselrode12 km away · prominence 924 m2,474m
- Papaya Nunatak13 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.
Photos
Teslin River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Yukon RiverCanada3,190 km6,400 m³/sTributaries (2)
Also: Nałasìn River, Dän Tàgé
United StatesWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q284495) · 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 | Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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