River
Tono River
46 km from source to mouth · Timor Leste.
Timor Leste3rd longest in Timor Leste
In numbers
Length
46km
Average flow
4.6m³/s
Basin
545km²
Drop
102m
from 108 m to 6 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
46 km of river and 2 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 108 m
- 45 kmLifau1,938 people
- 45 kmNoefefan Bridge
- 46 kmMouthat 6 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in East Timor
At the mouth it carries 4.6 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 544 seconds. It drops from 108 m to 6 m, 2.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 545 km².
Where to start
- LifauLargest city on its banks · 1,938 people
- Oecusse Route of the Sandalwood International Airport (OEC)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 3 km from the city
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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Along the river
Tono River: what you find on the way
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Tono River in our other atlases
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149mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (149)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Mount Mutis11 km away · prominence 1,970 m2,417m
- Tubu Fatutone14 km away
- Tubu Kuafenu14 km away
- Tubu Hanuf12 km away
- Tubu Binoni12 km away
- Nuaf Nofa12 km away
- Tubu Nuamolo11 km away
- Tubu Kaiso13 km away
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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
Tono River in pictures
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1686659) · 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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