River
Agusan River
349 km from source to mouth · Philippines.
PhilippinesFlows into Butuan Bay3rd longest in Philippines
In numbers
Length
349km
Average flow
570m³/s
Basin
10,921km²
Drop
625m
from 629 m to 4 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
349 km of river and 19 stops on the way: 16 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 629 m
- 57 kmGabi3,939 people
- 66 kmCompostela42,563 people
- 76 kmBabag3,215 people
- 90 kmMonkayo96,405 people
- 98 kmBaylo3,552 people
- 111 kmPasian4,291 people
- 126 kmSanta Josefa4,164 people
- 146 kmVeruela18,114 people
- 224 kmTalacogon15,581 people
- 225 kmLake Lumao5.5 km²
- 226 kmLake Himbang0.3 km²
- 232 kmSan Luis7,109 people
- 256 kmGuadalupe3,381 people
- 279 kmEsperanza6,193 people
- 304 kmTungao8,910 people
- 331 kmMacapagal Bridge
- 336 kmButuan309,709 people
- 346 kmMagallanes6,636 people
- 346 kmLombocan4,521 people
- 349 kmButuan Bayat 4 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River located in the eastern part of Mindanao island in the Philippines
At the mouth it carries 573 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 4.4 seconds. It drops from 629 m to 4 m, 1.8 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 10,921 km², about the size of XK. 1.3 million people live in it. Highest water: from January to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- ButuanLargest city on its banks · 309,709 people
- Bancasi Airport (BXU)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 7 km from the cityCar hire at CGY airport (Laguindingan)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water11 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From November to MarchThe best months to visit
Agusan River, month by month
Highest water: from January to March
Best months to visit: from November to March.
From about 350 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
Agusan River: the basin in numbers
11,790 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.3millionpeople live in the basin
- 114/km²people per km²
- 284maverage altitude of the basin
- 3,089mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 25.3°Caverage air temperature
- 6%protected areas
- 0.3%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 35% Forest
- 30% Cropland
- 4% 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
Agusan River: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
- 11Ferry piersButuan, Lumbocan, Magallanes and 8 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.8 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Agusan 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
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lake Lumaokm 1685.5km²
- Lake Himbangkm 1690.3km²
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Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Leonard Kniaseff14 km away1,080m
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
Agusan River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (1)
Also: Wawa River
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q398774) · 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, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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