River
Tskhenistsqali
184 km from source to mouth · Georgia.
GeorgiaFlows into Rioni4th longest in Georgia
In numbers
Length
184km
Average flow
90m³/s
Basin
2,120km²
Drop
1,543m
from 1,553 m to 10 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
184 km of river and 6 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,553 m
- 89 kmTsageri1,320 people
- 122 kmGumati Reservoir0.7 km²
- 129 kmKutaisi135,201 people
- 142 kmVartsikhe Reservoir1.2 km²
- 161 kmVani3,151 people
- 177 kmSamtredia21,063 people
- 184 kmRioniat 10 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Georgia
At the mouth it carries 90 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 28 seconds. It drops from 1,553 m to 10 m, 8.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,120 km², about the size of KM. 588,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to February. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- KutaisiLargest city on its banks · 135,201 people
- David the Builder Kutaisi International Airport (KUT)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 20 km from the cityCar hire at KUT airport (Kopitnari)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water4 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe1 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Tskhenistsqali, month by month
Highest water: from December to February
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 96 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
Tskhenistsqali: the basin in numbers
9,535 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 588,000people live in the basin
- 62/km²people per km²
- 1,068maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,053mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.9°Caverage air temperature
- 3%protected areas
- 0.3%covered by lakes
- 2%permafrost
- 0.0km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 54% Forest
- 12% Cropland
- 19% Pasture
- 3% 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
Tskhenistsqali: what you find on the way
- 5Weirs
- 10WaterfallsWaterfall of Love, Patardzli waterfall, Alpana Waterfall and 7 more
- 1RapidsMukhli
- 2Boat ramps
- 2Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.8 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Tskhenistsqali 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.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
9mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Gumati Reservoirkm 139 · 24 m deep0.7km²
- Vartsikhe Reservoirkm 1621.2km²
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Mountains at the source (9)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Ailama12 km away · prominence 696 m4,547m
- Sugan13 km away · prominence 1,161 m4,487m
- Gyulchi12 km away4,491m
- Laboda14 km away4,313m
- Tsurungal11 km away4,250m
- Fytnargin6.8 km away4,123m
- Pasis-Mta2.1 km away · prominence 369 m3,805m
- Sharitau1.2 km away3,689m
1 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
Tskhenistsqali in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
RioniGeorgia327 km400 m³/sTributaries (5)
Also: Laskadura (River), Kheledula, Zeskho, Devashi, Jannauli
In the same basin
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Georgia140 km90 m³/s36 km awayEnguriGeorgia213 km40 m³/s68 km awayÇoruhGeorgia438 km280 m³/s83 km awayKodori RiverGeorgia84 km140 m³/s121 km awayAragvi RiverGeorgia112 km33 m³/s203 km awayBzyb RiverGeorgia110 km97 m³/s203 km awayKsaniGeorgia84 km15 m³/s193 km awayDebedGeorgia178 km30 m³/s236 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2040044) · 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 | Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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