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Azat River

55 km from source to mouth · Armenia.

ArmeniaArmeniaFlows into Aras River3rd longest in Armenia

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

In numbers

Length

55km

Average flow

36m³/s

Basin

572km²

Drop

516m

from 1,336 m to 820 m

Country

1

The journey

From source to mouth

55 km of river and 23 stops on the way: 21 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

1,336 m820 m
Spitaksarat 1,336 m0 km
Goght2,143 people7 km
Garni Fortress15 km
Garni8,111 people15 km
Azat Reservoir0.8 km²32 km
Abovyan1,402 people38 km
Kanachut1,028 people43 km
Azatavan3,117 people48 km
Aras Riverat 820 m55 km
0204055 km
  1. 0 kmSpitaksarat 1,336 m
  2. 7 kmGoght2,143 people
  3. 15 kmGarni Fortress
  4. 15 kmGarni8,111 people
  5. 32 kmAzat Reservoir0.8 km²
  6. 33 kmBardzrashen1,335 people
  7. 35 kmLanjazat1,388 people
  8. 38 kmAbovyan1,402 people
  9. 38 kmGetazat2,103 people
  10. 39 kmArevshat2,444 people
  11. 40 kmMrganush1,086 people
  12. 42 kmNshavan1,588 people
  13. 42 kmAygestan2,449 people
  14. 43 kmKanachut1,028 people
  15. 43 kmByuravan1,206 people
  16. 46 kmMkhchyan5,022 people
  17. 46 kmDimitrov1,156 people
  18. 47 kmMasis1,557 people
  19. 48 kmAzatavan3,117 people
  20. 49 kmBurastan1,865 people
  21. 50 kmBerkanush1,919 people
  22. 50 kmBaghramyan1,841 people
  23. 50 kmDalar2,775 people
  24. 50 kmMrgavan1,896 people
  25. 55 kmAras Riverat 820 m

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

River in Armenia

At the mouth it carries 36 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 70 seconds. It drops from 1,336 m to 820 m, 9.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 572 km². 2.9 million people live in it. Highest water: from April to May; lowest: February and from August to October. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (23% of a year's flow).

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Where to start

Azat River, month by month

Highest water: from April to May

Lowest water: February and from August to October. Best months to visit: from May to June and from August to October.

86
-3°19 mmJan
37
0°22 mmFeb
300
6°27 mmMar
330
13°34 mmApr
370
18°46 mmMay
170
22°25 mmJun
99
26°11 mmJul
28
26°9 mmAug
15
21°11 mmSep
66
14°26 mmOct
110
7°22 mmNov
140
1°17 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 15 m³/s in the lowest month to 370 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

Azat River: the basin in numbers

32,837 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Heavily regulatedReservoirs can hold 23% of a year's flow: dams shape its seasons.
  • 2.9millionpeople live in the basin
  • 87/km²people per km²
  • 1,957maverage altitude of the basin
  • 513mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 5.2°Caverage air temperature
  • 6%protected areas
  • 4.3%covered by lakes
  • 0.7km³held in reservoirs

What covers the basin

  • 2% Forest
  • 23% Cropland
  • 36% Pasture
  • 3% 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

Azat River: what you find on the way

  • 5Dams
  • 2Weirs
  • 8Waterfalls

From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Azat 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
  • 21mountains at the sourcePeakyas

Lakes and reservoirs (1)

Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas

  1. Azat Reservoirkm 260.8km²

Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗

Mountains at the source (21)

Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas

  1. Azhdahak8.1 km away3,598m
  2. Karmir Katar8.0 km away3,530m
  3. Geghasar6.0 km away3,443m
  4. Western Aghusar11 km away3,458m
  5. Eastern Aghusar11 km away3,434m
  6. Nazeli4.8 km away3,312m
  7. Dimatsler9.8 km away3,335m
  8. Vochkharatumb6.0 km away3,237m

13 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗

From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Azat River: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Azat River: satellite view of the mouth
The mouth25 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

Azat River in pictures

Río Azat, valle de Garni, Armenia, 2016-10-02, DD 27-29 HDR
Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
Río Azat, valle de Garni, Armenia, 2016-10-02, DD 30-32 HDR
Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
Azat river at Geghard - panoramio
harutune · CC BY-SA 3.0
Garni Canyon, Azat River Valley, Armenia
Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0

Tributaries

Where it flows, and what flows into it

It flows into

Aras RiverAzerbaijanAzerbaijan1,072 km280 m³/s

Tributaries (4)

Also: Goght, Milli, Voskejur, Chorselyav

In the same basin

Kura RiverAzerbaijanAzerbaijan1,360 km440 m³/sAlazaniAzerbaijanAzerbaijan351 km98 m³/sHrazdan RiverArmeniaArmenia141 km18 m³/sAkhurian RiverTurkeyTurkey186 km270 m³/sIori RiverAzerbaijanAzerbaijan320 km120 m³/sDebedGeorgiaGeorgia178 km30 m³/sVorotan RiverAzerbaijanAzerbaijan178 km22 m³/sAragvi RiverGeorgiaGeorgia112 km33 m³/sArpa RiverAzerbaijanAzerbaijan128 km21 m³/sKhrami RiverAzerbaijanAzerbaijan201 km51 m³/s

Nearby

Rivers nearby

Hrazdan RiverArmeniaArmenia141 km18 m³/s7 km awayKasagh RiverArmeniaArmenia89 km6.8 m³/s24 km awayAkhurian RiverTurkeyTurkey186 km270 m³/s76 km awayArpa RiverAzerbaijanAzerbaijan128 km21 m³/s66 km awayDebedGeorgiaGeorgia178 km30 m³/s163 km awayKhrami RiverAzerbaijanAzerbaijan201 km51 m³/s160 km awayAghstevAzerbaijanAzerbaijan133 km8.2 m³/s165 km awayAlazaniAzerbaijanAzerbaijan351 km98 m³/s216 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q2085183) · 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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