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Aragvi River

112 km from source to mouth · Georgia.

GeorgiaGeorgiaFlows into Kura River7th longest in Georgia

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SourceMouth
The river and every tributary in its basin, drawn from RiverATLAS (CC BY 4.0).

In numbers

Length

112km

Average flow

33m³/s

Basin

2,740km²

Drop

801m

from 1,251 m to 450 m

Country

1

The journey

From source to mouth

112 km of river and 9 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

1,251 m450 m
Sourceat 1,251 m0 km
Shavi Aragvitributary22 km
Tetri Aragvitributary22 km
Pshavi Aragvitributary61 km
Zhinvali Reservoir5.7 km²62 km
Kura Riverat 450 m112 km
0255075100112 km
  1. 0 kmSourceat 1,251 m
  2. 22 kmPasanauri1,148 people
  3. 22 kmShavi Aragvitributary
  4. 22 kmTetri Aragvitributary
  5. 52 kmAnanuri Bridge
  6. 61 kmPshavi Aragvitributary
  7. 62 kmZhinvali Reservoir5.7 km²
  8. 62 kmZhinvali2,643 people
  9. 110 kmNarekvavitributary
  10. 110 kmMtskheta7,606 people
  11. 112 kmKura Riverat 450 m

Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.

River in Georgia

At the mouth it carries 33 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 76 seconds. It drops from 1,251 m to 450 m, 7.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,740 km², about the size of LU. 41,000 people live in it. Highest water: from May to June; lowest: January. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (50% of a year's flow).

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Where to start

  • MtskhetaLargest city on its banks · 7,606 people
  • Tbilisi International Airport (TBS)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 28 km from the cityCar hire at TBS airport (Tbilisi)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
  • On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
  • Kayak and canoe1 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
  • From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit

Aragvi River, month by month

Highest water: from May to June

Lowest water: January. Best months to visit: from June to September.

5.9
-1°28 mmJan
49
1°34 mmFeb
49
5°46 mmMar
60
10°67 mmApr
91
15°106 mmMay
91
19°96 mmJun
59
22°70 mmJul
36
22°59 mmAug
31
18°54 mmSep
39
12°54 mmOct
50
6°52 mmNov
40
1°35 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 5.9 m³/s in the lowest month to 91 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

Aragvi River: the basin in numbers

2,741 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Heavily regulatedReservoirs can hold 50% of a year's flow: dams shape its seasons.
  • 41,000people live in the basin
  • 15/km²people per km²
  • 1,616maverage altitude of the basin
  • 937mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 5.4°Caverage air temperature
  • 7%protected areas
  • 0.3%covered by lakes
  • 4%permafrost
  • 0.5km³held in reservoirs

What covers the basin

  • 37% Forest
  • 10% Cropland
  • 37% 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

Aragvi River: what you find on the way

  • 7DamsZhinvali Dam, Bodorna HPP and 5 more
  • 1Weirs
  • 1Locks
  • 1Rapids
  • 1Boat rampsMtskheta Pier

From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Aragvi 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.

  • 1lake on its wayLakeyas
  • 22mountains at the sourcePeakyas

Lakes and reservoirs (1)

Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas

  1. Zhinvali Reservoirkm 46 · 75 m deep5.7km²

Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗

Mountains at the source (22)

Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas

  1. Munjukhi12 km away2,685m
  2. Kurkuta8.0 km away2,681m
  3. Sapersheti8.9 km away2,602m
  4. Laghismta9.1 km away2,601m
  5. Maghatsalni5.7 km away2,608m
  6. Takhta8.8 km away2,439m
  7. Chartali9.9 km away2,284m
  8. Gora Tsipori6.9 km away

14 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗

From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Aragvi River: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Aragvi River: satellite view of the mouth
The mouth10 km across

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

Aragvi River in pictures

Aragvi at Mtskheta
Kober · Public domain
View upstream Aragvi River from Jvari monastery, 2008-07-07
Adam Harvey · CC BY 2.0
Aragvi Source July2009
D.Papuashvili ( talk ). Original uploader was D.Papuashvili at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Aragvi Canyon, Gudauri, Georgia
Dv0rsky from Tbilisi, Georgia · CC BY 2.0

Tributaries

Where it flows, and what flows into it

It flows into

Kura RiverAzerbaijanAzerbaijan1,360 km440 m³/s

Tributaries (6)

Also: Pshavi Aragvi, Tetri Aragvi, Narekvavi, Shavi Aragvi, Tezami, Abanoskhevi

In the same basin

Aras RiverAzerbaijanAzerbaijan1,072 km280 m³/sAlazaniAzerbaijanAzerbaijan351 km98 m³/sHrazdan RiverArmeniaArmenia141 km18 m³/sAkhurian RiverTurkeyTurkey186 km270 m³/sIori RiverAzerbaijanAzerbaijan320 km120 m³/sDebedGeorgiaGeorgia178 km30 m³/sVorotan RiverAzerbaijanAzerbaijan178 km22 m³/sArpa RiverAzerbaijanAzerbaijan128 km21 m³/sKhrami RiverAzerbaijanAzerbaijan201 km51 m³/sAzat RiverArmeniaArmenia55 km36 m³/s

Nearby

Rivers nearby

KsaniGeorgiaGeorgia84 km15 m³/s11 km awayDebedGeorgiaGeorgia178 km30 m³/s55 km awayKhrami RiverAzerbaijanAzerbaijan201 km51 m³/s70 km awayAghstevAzerbaijanAzerbaijan133 km8.2 m³/s92 km awayAlazaniAzerbaijanAzerbaijan351 km98 m³/s190 km awayIori RiverAzerbaijanAzerbaijan320 km120 m³/s175 km awayQvirila RiverGeorgiaGeorgia140 km90 m³/s169 km awayHrazdan RiverArmeniaArmenia141 km18 m³/s207 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q596630) · CC0
Course, profile, basinRiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata
FlowWaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Climate along the riverWorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Towns, bridges, damsWikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Along the river© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Our other atlasesLakeyas, 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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