River
Tuira River
230 km from source to mouth · Panama.
PanamaFlows into Bay of San Miguel2nd longest in Panama
In numbers
Length
230km
Average flow
650m³/s
Basin
10,664km²
Drop
84m
from 84 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
230 km of river and 1 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 84 m
- 156 kmChucunaque Rivertributary
- 230 kmBay of San Miguelat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Panama
At the mouth it carries 651 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 3.8 seconds. It drops from 84 m to 0 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 10,664 km², about the size of XK. 35,000 people live in it. Highest water: from October to November; lowest: from February to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- La PalmaLargest city on its banks · 1,728 people
- Tocumen International Airport (PTY)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 155 km from the cityCar hire at PTY airport (Tocumen)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water4 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From January to MarchThe best months to visit
Tuira River, month by month
Highest water: from October to November
Lowest water: from February to April. Best months to visit: from January to March.
From about 190 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,100 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.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Tuira River: the basin in numbers
10,779 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 35,000people live in the basin
- 3/km²people per km²
- 266maverage altitude of the basin
- 2,235mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 25.3°Caverage air temperature
- 39%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 77% Forest
- 2% Cropland
- 9% 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
Tuira River: what you find on the way
- 4Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.8 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Tuira 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.
3beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Beaches (3)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Playa Grande9.3 km away28.6°C
- Playa Brava20 km away28.6°C
- La Ensenada18 km away · cove28.6°C
Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Temartaket Yala12 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
Tuira River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (1)
Nearby
Rivers nearby
ColombiaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2516761) · 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 | Coastya, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
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