River
Agri
136 km from source to mouth · Italy.
ItalyFlows into Gulf of Taranto
In numbers
Length
136km
Average flow
20m³/s
Basin
1,770km²
Drop
578m
from 578 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
136 km of river and 7 stops on the way: 6 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 578 m
- 4 kmVilla d'Agri3,595 people
- 18 kmGrumento Nova1,124 people
- 28 kmSpinoso1,429 people
- 30 kmMontemurro1,149 people
- 32 kmLago di Pietra del Pertusillo4.7 km²
- 68 kmSan Brancato3,978 people
- 129 kmPolicoro11,810 people
- 136 kmGulf of Tarantoat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Italy
At the mouth it carries 20 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 125 seconds. It drops from 578 m to 0 m, 4.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,770 km², about the size of GP. 79,000 people live in it. Highest water: from November to January; lowest: from June to September. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- PolicoroLargest city on its banks · 11,810 people
- Bari Karol Wojtyła International Airport (BRI)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 103 km from the cityCar hire at BRI airport (Bari)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water3 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Agri, month by month
Highest water: from November to January
Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 3.3 m³/s in the lowest month to 41 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
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The basin
Agri: the basin in numbers
1,747 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 79,000people live in the basin
- 45/km²people per km²
- 635maverage altitude of the basin
- 705mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 12.8°Caverage air temperature
- 27%protected areas
- 0.3%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 20% Forest
- 20% Cropland
- 7% 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
Agri: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
- 1Boat ramps
- 1MarinasMarina di Policoro
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Agri 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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
2beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lago di Pietra del Pertusillokm 244.7km²
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Beaches (2)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- SoundRise Beach12 km away26.2°C
- Spiaggia di Policoro1.5 km away26.2°C
Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Monte Volturino7.1 km away · prominence 912 m1,835m
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
Agri in pictures
Nearby
Rivers nearby
AlbaniaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q396520) · 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 | Lakeyas, Coastya, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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