River
Tungabhadra River
710 km from source to mouth · India.
IndiaFlows into Krishna River
In numbers
Length
710km
Average flow
650m³/s
Basin
72,200km²
Drop
529m
from 792 m to 263 m
Country
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The journey
From source to mouth
710 km of river and 14 stops on the way: 9 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmWestern Ghatsat 792 m
- 107 kmBhadra Reservoir97 km²
- 134 kmBhadrāvati163,903 people
- 159 kmBhadra Rivertributary
- 203 kmHonnāli17,928 people
- 251 kmHarihar83,219 people
- 325 kmVaradatributary
- 424 kmTunga Bhadra Reservoir353 km²
- 429 kmMunirābād8,672 people
- 443 kmHampi10,000 people
- 461 kmKampli39,307 people
- 524 kmVedavathi Rivertributary
- 661 kmMāmidālapādu26,694 people
- 665 kmKurnool460,184 people
- 682 kmĀlampur14,060 people
- 710 kmKrishna Riverat 263 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in India
At the mouth it carries 650 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 3.8 seconds. It drops from 792 m to 263 m, 0.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 72,200 km², about the size of SL. 17.9 million people live in it. Highest water: from August to October; lowest: from January to April. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 55% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- KurnoolLargest city on its banks · 460,184 people
- Kurnool Airport (KJB)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 19 km from the cityCar hire at HYD airport (Hyderabad)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water9 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From November to FebruaryThe best months to visit
Tungabhadra River, month by month
Highest water: from August to October
Lowest water: from January to April. Best months to visit: from November to February.
From about 13 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,500 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
Tungabhadra River: the basin in numbers
71,139 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 17.9millionpeople live in the basin
- 253/km²people per km²
- 588maverage altitude of the basin
- 792mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 25.8°Caverage air temperature
- 4%protected areas
- 1.1%covered by lakes
- 6.9km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 20% Forest
- 70% Cropland
- 6% Pasture
- 6% 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
Tungabhadra River: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
- 2Locks
- 5WaterfallsSoormane falls, Swimming spot, Big and 2 more
- 8Ferry piersCoracle Boat Rides and 7 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Tungabhadra 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.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Bhadra Reservoirkm 10597km²
- Tunga Bhadra Reservoirkm 415353km²
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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
Tungabhadra River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Krishna RiverIndia1,400 km1,600 m³/sTributaries (3)
Also: Bhadra River, Vedavathi River, Varada
In the same basin
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q949183) · 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 — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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