River
Yaque del Norte River
296 km from source to mouth · Dominican Republic.
Dominican RepublicFlows into Atlantic Ocean1st longest in Dominican Republic
In numbers
Length
296km
Average flow
97m³/s
Basin
7,053km²
Drop
1,044m
from 1,044 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
296 km of river and 10 stops on the way: 7 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,044 m
- 38 kmJarabacoa29,983 people
- 48 kmJimenoa Rivertributary
- 74 kmEmbalse Tavera4.5 km²
- 77 kmEmbalse de Bao5.8 km²
- 103 kmSantiago de los Caballeros1,200,000 people
- 141 kmVilla Bisonó33,137 people
- 161 kmEsperanza42,169 people
- 190 kmJaibón4,853 people
- 248 kmVilla Vásquez11,642 people
- 255 kmCastañuelas4,209 people
- 296 kmAtlantic Oceanat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in the Dominican Republic
At the mouth it carries 97 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 26 seconds. It drops from 1,044 m to 0 m, 3.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 7,053 km², about the size of PS. 1.3 million people live in it. Highest water: from May to June and from November to December. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (23% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- Santiago de los CaballerosLargest city on its banks · 1,200,000 people
- Cibao International Airport (STI)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 10 km from the cityCar hire at STI airport (Santiago)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From December to MarchThe best months to visit
Yaque del Norte River, month by month
Highest water: from May to June and from November to December
Best months to visit: from December to March.
From about 21 m³/s in the lowest month to 98 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
Yaque del Norte River: the basin in numbers
7,089 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.3millionpeople live in the basin
- 180/km²people per km²
- 534maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,191mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 23.4°Caverage air temperature
- 30%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 0.4km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 47% Forest
- 31% Cropland
- 33% Pasture
- 5% 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
Yaque del Norte River: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 3WaterfallsSalto Los Monjes, Salto Los Monjes 2
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.7 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Yaque del Norte 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
4beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
52mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Embalse Taverakm 544.5km²
- Embalse de Baokm 565.8km²
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Beaches (4)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Playa Juan de Bolaños1.9 km away29.2°C
- Playa de Punta Luna11 km away29.2°C
- Playa de Peti Salina18 km away29.2°C
- Baie Est25 km away · cove29.2°C
Mountains at the source (52)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Pico Duarte8.2 km away · prominence 3,101 m3,101m
- Cordillera Central8.1 km away3,098m
- Pico del Yaque5.0 km away2,663m
- Loma del Pico7.6 km away2,514m
- Loma Sillón Hondo14 km away2,491m
- Loma de los Montecitos14 km away
- Loma Lagunita14 km away
- Loma Tasajera15 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
Yaque del Norte River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (1)
Also: Jimenoa River
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Haiti
CubaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q776071) · 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, Coastya, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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