River
Tigre River
598 km from source to mouth · Peru and Ecuador.
Peru and EcuadorFlows into Marañón River9th longest in Peru
In numbers
Length
598km
Average flow
2,700m³/s
Basin
54,200km²
Drop
120m
from 213 m to 93 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
598 km of river and 5 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 213 m
- 81 kmConambo Rivertributary
- 81 kmPintoyacu Rivertributary
- 292 kmLaguna Hidlago0.4 km²
- 296 kmLaguna Torres (lanaw nga porma ug arko, lat -3,32, long -75,07)0.7 km²
- 413 kmCorrientes Rivertributary
- 598 kmMarañón Riverat 93 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Tributary of the Marañón River in Ecuador and Peru
At the mouth it carries 2,700 m³/s on average: 1.1 Olympic pools every second. It drops from 213 m to 93 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 54,200 km², about the size of HR. 31,000 people live in it. Highest water: from April to July. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- ParinariA town on its banks
- Coronel FAP Francisco Secada Vignetta International Airport (IQT)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 152 km from the cityCar hire in TarapotoDiscover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From April to AugustThe best months to visit
Tigre River, month by month
Highest water: from April to July
Best months to visit: from April to August.
From about 2,200 m³/s in the lowest month to 3,100 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.
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The basin
Tigre River: the basin in numbers
43,096 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 31,000people live in the basin
- 1/km²people per km²
- 202maverage altitude of the basin
- 2,704mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 25.7°Caverage air temperature
- 20%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 94% Forest
- 2% 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.
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Tigre River in our other atlases
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2lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Laguna Hidlagokm 3010.4km²
- Laguna Torres (lanaw nga porma ug arko, lat -3,32, long -75,07)km 3050.7km²
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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
Tigre River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Marañón RiverPeru1,737 km16,700 m³/sTributaries (4)
Also: Conambo River, Corrientes River, Pintoyacu River, Pucacuro River
In the same basin
Brazil6,400 km209,000 m³/sRio NegroBrazil2,250 km30,000 m³/sMadeira RiverBrazil1,450 km31,200 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/sTapajós RiverBrazil1,930 km13,000 m³/sPutumayo RiverBrazil1,610 km7,000 m³/sWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1636709) · 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 — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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