River
Baker River
170 km from source to mouth · Chile.
ChileFlows into Baker Channel7th longest in Chile
In numbers
Length
170km
Average flow
340m³/s
Basin
26,726km²
Drop
206m
from 203 m to -3 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
170 km of river and 7 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmBertrand Lakeat 203 m
- 3 kmBertrand Lake66 km²
- 15 kmNef Rivertributary
- 31 kmChacabuco Rivertributary
- 47 kmCochrane Rivertributary
- 54 kmRío del Saltotributary
- 66 kmColonia Rivertributary
- 91 kmRío de Los Ñadistributary
- 170 kmBaker Channelat -3 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River located in the Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region of the Chilean Patagonia
At the mouth it carries 343 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 7.3 seconds. It drops from 203 m to -3 m, 1.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 26,726 km², about the size of RW. 12,000 people live in it. Highest water: from May to August. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- CochraneLargest city on its banks · 2,867 people
- Perito Moreno Jalil Hamer Airport (PMQ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 145 km from the cityCar hire in CoyhaiqueDiscover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water5 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe2 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From December to FebruaryThe best months to visit
Baker River, month by month
Highest water: from May to August
Best months to visit: from December to February.
From about 230 m³/s in the lowest month to 570 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
Baker River: the basin in numbers
26,814 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 12,000people live in the basin
- 0/km²people per km²
- 907maverage altitude of the basin
- 783mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 5.0°Caverage air temperature
- 24%protected areas
- 9.0%covered by lakes
- 8%glaciers
- 1%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 27% Forest
- 16% Pasture
- 8% Ice
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
Baker River: what you find on the way
- 4Waterfallslas Mellizas, Cascada Inmigrante and 2 more
- 2Rapids
- 1Boat rampsEmbarcadero
- 4Ferry piersBalsa, Balsa Baker, Muelle Caleta Tortel and 1 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Baker 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
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Bertrand Lakekm 366km²
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Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Cerro Pato Raro12 km away
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
Baker River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (8)
Also: Chacabuco River, Cochrane River, Nef River, Colonia River, Río del Salto, Río de Los Ñadis, Río Vargas, Rio Ventisquero
Nearby
Rivers nearby
ArgentinaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q636898) · 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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