River
Arga
145 km from source to mouth · Spain.
SpainFlows into Aragón
In numbers
Length
145km
Average flow
60m³/s
Basin
2,759km²
Drop
258m
from 532 m to 274 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
145 km of river and 31 stops on the way: 21 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 532 m
- 0 kmEmbalse de Eugui1.0 km²
- 3 kmPuente de la Rabia
- 23 kmSarriguren14,779 people
- 24 kmHuarte3,879 people
- 26 kmAtarrabia10,341 people
- 28 kmBurlata18,934 people
- 30 kmPuente medieval de la Magdalena
- 32 kmSegundo Ensanche22,538 people
- 32 kmBridge of Rochapea
- 32 kmPrimer Ensanche22,538 people
- 32 kmPamplona209,094 people
- 33 kmSanta Engracia bridge
- 33 kmBerriozar8,199 people
- 34 kmIturrama24,846 people
- 34 kmErmitagaña17,163 people
- 35 kmMiluze
- 36 kmBarañáin20,039 people
- 38 kmOrkoien3,996 people
- 40 kmZizur Mayor13,345 people
- 40 kmUltzama Rivertributary
- 40 kmElorz rivertributary
- 51 kmArakil Rivertributary
- 76 kmPuente la Reina2,577 people
- 76 kmPuente La Reina – Gares2,972 people
- 77 kmRobotributary
- 84 kmMendigorría1,044 people
- 95 kmLarraga1,959 people
- 124 kmFalces2,605 people
- 134 kmPeralta5,722 people
- 137 kmFunes2,406 people
- 145 kmVillafranca2,780 people
- 145 kmAragónat 274 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Spain
At the mouth it carries 60 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 42 seconds. It drops from 532 m to 274 m, 1.8 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,759 km², about the size of LU. 467,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to February; lowest: from August to September. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (20% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- PamplonaLargest city on its banks · 209,094 people
- Pamplona Airport (PNA)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 5 km from the cityCar hire at BIQ airport (Biarritz)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Arga, month by month
Highest water: from December to February
Lowest water: from August to September. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 50 m³/s in the lowest month to 270 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
Arga: the basin in numbers
8,386 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 467,000people live in the basin
- 56/km²people per km²
- 771maverage altitude of the basin
- 933mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.3°Caverage air temperature
- 7%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 1.2km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 56% Forest
- 24% Cropland
- 19% Pasture
- 1% 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
Arga: what you find on the way
- 19WeirsRepresa de Biurdana and 18 more
- 1Waterfalls
- 2River beachesIbai-hondartza, Playa fluvial
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.8 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Arga 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
66mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Embalse de Euguikm 01.0km²
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Mountains at the source (66)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Adi2.2 km away1,458m
- Hauza14 km away · prominence 616 m1,304m
- Sayoa7.6 km away1,419m
- Xuriain7.3 km away1,410m
- Lindus8.7 km away1,220m
- Pilotasoro3.9 km away1,306m
- Monte Autza14 km away1,304m
- Laurinaga10 km away1,278m
58 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
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.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
AragónSpain195 km41 m³/sTributaries (4)
Also: Elorz river, Arakil River, Ultzama River, Robo
Nearby
Rivers nearby
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| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q20360) · 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, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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