River
Arys River
378 km from source to mouth · Kazakhstan.
KazakhstanFlows into Syr Darya
In numbers
Length
378km
Average flow
47m³/s
Basin
14,900km²
Drop
1,332m
from 1,525 m to 193 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
378 km of river and 5 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,525 m
- 44 kmTurar Ryskulov18,421 people
- 150 kmAksutributary
- 179 kmBoralday Rivertributary
- 190 kmTemirlanovka12,245 people
- 224 kmBadam Rivertributary
- 378 kmSyr Daryaat 193 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Kazakhstan
At the mouth it carries 47 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 54 seconds. It drops from 1,525 m to 193 m, 3.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 14,900 km², about the size of TL. 1.3 million people live in it. Highest water: from February to April; lowest: from July to October. Its dams hold back little of its water (5.2% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- Turar RyskulovLargest city on its banks · 18,421 people
- Shymkent International Airport (CIT)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 74 km from the cityCar hire at ALA airport (Almaty)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From April to June and from August to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Arys River, month by month
Highest water: from February to April
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from April to June and from August to September.
From about 8.0 m³/s in the lowest month to 110 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
Arys River: the basin in numbers
14,379 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.3millionpeople live in the basin
- 89/km²people per km²
- 819maverage altitude of the basin
- 502mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.5°Caverage air temperature
- 6%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
- 1%permafrost
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 11% Cropland
- 67% Pasture
- 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
Arys River: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
- 2Waterfalls
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.9 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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
Arys River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Syr DaryaKazakhstan2,212 km700 m³/sTributaries (3)
Also: Badam River, Boralday River, Aksu
KyrgyzstanNearby
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| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2622025) · 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 |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
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